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III. A Letter from Mr. Henry Baker F.R.S. 
to the Prefident, concerning the Grubbs 
dejlroying the Grafs in Norfolk. 
SIR , 
Read Nov. STYAVING feen forae Letters lately 
! 747- JLJl *" ent fr° m Counties of Norfolk 
and Suffolk , giving an Account, that prodigious 
Numbers of what one Letter calls Grubs. , and ano- 
ther large Maggots , full as thick and almoft as long 
as a Mans little Finger, are difperfed over the 
Fields, and do abundance of Mifchief in thofe 
Counties, I immediately imagined (tho’ the Accounts 
were very imperfed, being fent by People wholly 
ignorant of Natural Hiftory), that they muft be the 
Aureli£ or Chryfalides of fome Species of Beetle : 
And defiring to get what farther Information I could 
concerning them, I wrote with that Intent to my 
ingenious Friend Mr. Arderon at Norwich , F. R. S. 
whofe Anfwer (with fome Additions of my own) I 
{hail 
* Alfo on our antient Monuments of Stone or Alabafter cum- 
4 bent Statues have moflly piked Shoes. But fome of earlier Date 
4 than Ed. III. have broad turn-up Shoes at the Toes, of the fame 
4 like Form and Make as this Womans. The Mens broad Toes, 
4 and the Womens narrow. 
4 Therefore I conclude this very Sandal could not well be earlier 
4 than Ed. I. or Hen . III. ; alfo, that the cutting the Form, and 
4 fowing to form the Heel cleverly, by a ditching behind the Heel 
4 with a fmall Leather Thong, may have been in Ufe before that 
4 of waxed Thread ufed by Shoe-makers, formerly called Cord- 
4 warners.’ 
Fig. i. {hews the Shoe fide- ways, laced, as when upon the Foot. 
Fig. 2. the fame feen from above. 
Fig. 3. the fame unlaced, and laid flat, to {hew the manner of its 
being cut out of the raw Hide. 
