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gone intb their LatHuh very foon 5 as foon, or fooner 
tban the Swallows^ where, doubtleis, they live all the 
Winter without Food, as many other Animals do. 
I faid before they harbour all Winter in dry ob- 
fcLire places, I have found them lying deep in undi- 
fturb'd Duft, but never in (hallow DulV, as tho they had 
a forefight of the danger and inconveniences of cold 
Frofty weather. 
Thus, in obedience to the commands of this iVugiift So- 
ciety, I have (as far as Fcao ) compleated my former ac- 
count of the Death-Watch, But I fear I have trefpais'd 
upon your patience too much by the length of this Nar- 
rative, and therefore think it time to conclude. Bot 
only I defire a word or two more, in aofwer to fome- 
thing I met with, fince my penning this, in thc Athemm 
Oracle^ which I think my felf obliged to take notice of. 
In the Queftion 'tis plainly the noife of the Pediculm 
Pulfatonus v/hich is defcrib'd. But the anfwer is by no 
means right. The ingenious Gentlemen of that Society 
fay. They enquired into fuch a Noife, found a little hole 
eaten in the Wall, that with a Paper Trap theycatch d 
the Infefl:, which they concluded made the Noife, and 
that it was a fraall fort of Spider. But I have been my 
felf fo often impos d upon in the fame nature, before i 
adually faw the truth, that I affure my felf thofe Athemau 
Gentlemen v/ere fo alfo. 1 have in hunting the Noife rome« 
times difcover'd a Spider near, fometimes the fmall Scara-. 
b^m lignivorus^ which eateth the littleholes in the Wood, 
which hath been c#mraonly taken for the Death '"' '^-^^ 
Thefe I gueft might make the clicking noife, and 
fore with all nicety watch'd them. But f )un^ 
altho the beating continud, the lofefts did -iiotflir 
leaft, nor were any way arfeded : So with all dn... 
I ftill purfu'd ray enquiry, which was the caufe ot ury 
difcovering the real thing. And ! have fo many yes. 
acquainted my (elf with all thenoifes of the Death-W^itch 
