. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. 4o8 March 1749. !j - t 'I'' I tf i >l^ (I I', h' The Fenfylvanlan /^fp was now in full blof- ^m. But neither this tree, nor thofe near a-kin to it, fliewed their leaves
. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. 4o8 March 1749. !j - t 'I'' I tf i >l^ (I I', h' The Fenfylvanlan /^fp was now in full blof- ^m. But neither this tree, nor thofe near a-kin to it, fliewed their leaves. An old countryman afl'erted, that he commonly fowed abuihel of rye, on an acre of ground, and got twenty bufhels in return; but from a bufhel of barley he got thirty bulliels. However in that cafe the ground muft be well prepared. Wheat returns about as much as rye. The foil was a clay mixed with fand and mould. In the evening I returned*. I found a black beetle-f fScara- bceiis) with a pentagonal oval Clypeus or fhield, on the head a Ihort blunt horn, and a gib- bous or hump-backed Thorax, or Corfelet. This beetle is one of the bigger fort here. 1 found here and there holes on the hills, which were fo wide that I could put my finger into them. On dig- ging them up 1 always found thefe beetles lying at the bottom, about hvt inches under ground. Sometimes there were fliort vrhitifh worms, about as thick as one's finger, which lay with the beetles; and perhaps they were related to them. There were likewife other infedls in fuch holes, as a black cricket (Gryllus campejlris) fpiders, earth-beetles (Carabi), and others. This beetle had a fcent exadly like the Ttrifolium me- hlotus cceruka, or the blue melilot. It was en- tirely covered with cblong pale ticks (Acari). * From iVV/f Gujiafsottt the old Sivede, t The beetle here deicribed, fsenis to be the Scarabaus Caroli- spis. Linn. Syft. Nat. p. 549, andof/)rarv Illuftrations of Nat. Hilt. tab. C55. f. 2. It is common i
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