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cioufly. The grafliopper, having many fto- 
machs, has caufed feveral authors to affcrt 
that tliey chew the cud, like fome other larg- 
er animals. 
GRYLLUS,— CRICKET. 
TT HIS family of infers is called in En- 
gland, cr^kets, from the found or noife they 
make. Towards fun-fet they leave their 
fubtei-raneous habitations, when they make 
the fields refound with their chirpings. The 
domeftic grillae abide in ovens, and hearths 
on which wood is burnt: here they fre- 
quently are troublefome, by their perpetu- 
al noife, and crawling about perfons fitting 
near the fire. But a popular prejudice, 
in many parts of England, prevents their 
being driven away, or deftroycd : for 
poor peafants, and common people, ima- 
gine they bring good fortune to whatever 
houfe they attach themfelves. — So true it is, 
that the moft abfurd chimeras enter the 
minds of the ignorant, who are always prone 
to fuperftitious errors. 
This infed is chiefly diftinguiflied by ha- 
ving at its hinder extremity two briftlcs. 
The domeftic and the field cricket are the 
fame fpecies ; all the difference is, that the 
T former 
