[28] Though Mr. Kalm has so carefully avoided peopling Europe with this insect, yet Dr. Linnæus assures us in his Systema Naturæ, that the southern countries of Europe are already infested with it; Scopoli mentions it among his Insecta Carniolica p. 63. and Geoffroy among his Parisian Insects, Vol. 1. p. 267. t. 4. f. 9. has given a fine figure of it. F. [↑]
[29] Diss. de Noxa Insectorum, Amœn. Acad. Vol. 3. p. 347. [↑]
[30] In his Systema Naturæ, he calls it Bruchus Pisi, or the Pease Beetle; and says that the Gracula Quiscula, or Purple daw of Catesby, is the greatest destroyer of them, and though [[177]]this bird has been proscribed by the legislature of Pensylvania, New Jersey, and New England as a maize-thief, they feel however the imprudence of extirpating this bird; for a quantity of worms which formerly were eaten by these birds destroy their meadows at present. F. [↑]
[31] If the pease were steeped before they are sown, in a lie of lime water and some dissolved arsenic, the pupa or aurelia of the insect would be killed. F. [↑]
[32] Mr. Miller describes this liquor in his Gardener’s Dictionary under the article of Convolvulus, species the 17th. and 18th. [↑]
[33] This animal is probably the Sorex cristatus of Dr. Linnæus, who says it is like the mole and lives in Pensylvania. F. [↑]
[34] The same is to be met with in Edwards’s Natural History of Birds, page 38. tab. 38. F. [↑]
[35] There is a much lesser species of humming-bird, by Linnæus called Trochilus minimus, being the least bird known; Sir Hans Sloane’s living one, weighed only twenty grains, and Mr. Edwards’s dry one forty-five. It is drawn in Edwards’s birds, t. 150, in its natural size, together with its egg. F. [↑]
[36] The author seems to comprehend more by this word, than what it commonly includes, for he describes it as a building, which contains both a barn and stables. F. [↑]
[37] This kind of building is frequent in the north of Germany, Holland, and Prussia, and therefore it is no wonder that it is employed by people who, were used to them in their own country. F. [↑]