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came to about the middle of it, they found fome orthe 
Hay to be burnt, fome part clear Allies, and a Globe of 
Vitrified Matter 5 but he added^ that the Fire waiJ 
quenched, as hefuppofed, for want of Air. 
IV. An Account of InfeSis in the Sarks of dec ay 
Elms and Afhes. In a Letter from Sir Matthew 
Dudley, Kjiight, F. % S. 
Clapton in NorthamptonJJjjre^ Ottoherj 15. 1704. 
AB6ut 5 or 6 years fince, I removed divers Elms, 
more than fix inches Diameter, which for the firft 
two or three years all thrived very wd{3 but two or three 
years ago there happening a very dry- time in July or 
Augnfi^ I obferved one of thofe Elms, which ftood very 
fhallovv, and on pretty high ground, looked very fick^ 
the Leaves turned yellow, and began tofallofF^ which 
made me with a Knife examine the Bark. I found the 
infide thereof not fo green, but of a more reddifh colour 
than the others 5 and between it and the Tree not fo 
moift, and the Bark ftickmg very clofe to the Wood : 
But what was moft remarkable, \ difcerneJ a great many 
little black Flyes of the Beetle kind ( viz.. having a hard 
Cafe, under v/hich |their thin long Wings were eon- 
trafted, and therewith covered) between the Baik and 
the Tree: And looking more carefully, I obferved chcfe 
Flyes had made their way thither by piercing the Bark in 
innumerable places, eafily difcernable on the ouni le, 
and was about the bignefs of a large Pin hole, or rither 
rfuch as a large Pins h^ad would go into 5 fome I foun J 
Hhhhhhhhhhh iuft 
