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by thefe Infe&s, that they fet Fire to a Wood fomc 
Miles in Length, which parted twoadjacent Counties, 
to prevent their difperfing thcmfelves any farther 
that Way. 
This, Sir, is all I fhall trouble you with at prefent 
concerning the Grubs mentioned in the News- Paper, 
as well as in private Letters, without diftinguifhing 
of what Kind they are j and If this Information may 
prove acceptable, it will be a Angular Pleafure to 
him who begs the Honour to be efteemed. 
Strand , Nov. 5. SIR , 
1 / 47 - Tour moft obedient , 
and moft humble Servant 9 
H. Baker* 
Mr. Arderon , in a fubfequent Letter to Mr. Baker, -Writes, that Mr. 
Ebdin folemnly declared, before the Committee of St. Helen's Hofpital, 
that the Damage done to him that Year amounted to 100/. and upwards. 
Three Gentlemen, appointed to infpeft into the Truth of his Complaint, 
vifited the Farm in the Harve.ft-Time, when, amongft other things, they 
found thofe Ears of Wheat, which had Part of their Roots eaten off, to 
look pale and wan, and when rubb’d, to afford nothing but fmall wi- 
ther’d Corn, not fit for any Ufe, and the Straw came up with the lead: 
Touch ,* and that thefe Eruca's do moft Damage where the Soil is richeft. 
Tho’ many burn thefe Flies, when they have beat them off the Trees, 
Mr. Ebdin. s Method was to fpread Cloths under the Trees, where he 
faw them hanging thickeft, and when beaten off, to wrap them up in the 
Cloths, and beat them to Pieces with wooden Beetles. 
Mr. Arderon fays, he had the above Remarks from Mr. Richard Hum - 
frey one of the Committee who infpe&ed the Farm ; and he adds that 
fome ingenious Perfons acco unt for the large Incrbafe of thefe Infers from 
the Decreafe of Rooks in this County, which they fay greedily devour 
them in their Grub-State ; and the Decreafe of Rooks is owing to moft 
of the ancient Rookeries having been deftroyed.by the large Fall of Tim- 
ber-Trees made of late Years, which has obliged the Rooks to remove 
into other Part? of the Kingdom. 
No<v. ii. Mr. Arderon dug up with his Cane two of thefe Eruca's 
within a Foot of one another in the Upper Clofe , near the middle of the 
City of Norwich , furrounded with Houfes ; they were about half-grown, 
an Inch and half long, and two Tenths in Diameter. 
iv. 
