°a ors. These spku1, intros uccd into the veins, act as purnpsuckers, into which the blood ascends, from the smallness of the capillary tubes. The pain and inflammation are caused by a fluid ejected by the insect. The female deposits her eggs on the water, in groups of two or three hundred) placed toge tiler in the form of a boat. r1110 gnat is Si

posed to feed both on animal and vegetable juices: but it is likely that the latter arc its chief nourishment ; as Reaumur observes, that

of the millions on m:llions which swarm in

marshes uid swamps, it it probable that not one in an hundred has an opportunity

tasting blood.

most is coniiuot OPCIfl n'Uion, LtpI tnd is the

vexatious insects; so that the poit

carceIy dare go abroad, without first smearing their hands and faces with a mixture of tar and cream. But, as every evil in nature is Curn

sera sate d i)y some advantage, so in the present case; for the myriads of giiats that swarm in these regions, with their larvir, that iral shag the lakes, supPlY nutritious toed to the inns merable multitudes of aquatic birds, which, in. their turn, are consumed by the natives.

The Musquito, whose bite, in warm climates., is not oniy troublesome, but sometimes chinger

cus

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