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(halt beg Leave to lay before you, after firft intrcat- 
ing your Patience to read a Defcription of thefe In- 
fers, publifhed in the London Evening Id oft of 
0 Bober the 29th, as it is the fame in Subftance with 
the private Letters that put me on enquiring after 
them, 
ExtraB of a Letter from Norfolk, to a Friend in 
London. 
‘ T Forgot to tell you in my laft of the Grubs that 
are in many Parts of our Country. They attack 
c the Corn-Fields fometimes, and fpoil all the Crops, 
c but haunt chiefly the richeft Meadows, where they 
€ work between the Turf and the Soil, eating the 
c Roots of the Grafs to that degree, that the Turf 
€ rifes and rolls up, with almoft as much Eafe as if 
c it was cut with a Tuning-Spade ,* and underneath 
c the Soil is turn'd to a foft Mould, like a Bed in a 
c Garden, for about an Inch deep ; in which lie the 
* Grubs, in a curved Pofture, upon their Backs, all 
1 and every one of them with only the Tips of their 
4 two Ends in Sight, the reft of their Bodies buried 
c in the Mould. They are in general about an Inch 
* and an half long, and as big as the Stem of a To- 
€ bacco Pipe, near - the Bowl ; they have red Heads, 
€ white fhining Bodies, a little hairy on the Back, 
< and the Rump End is ready to burft with a dirty 
4 looking Stuff, eaftly feen through the tranfparent 
* Skin 5 they have fix hairy Legs, three on each Side, 
‘ ail near the Head, two Forceps , or Jaws, like a 
€ Hornet, with which they cut afunder the Roots 
1 of the Grafs, and deftroy whole Meadows, with- 
F f f f 2 € out 
