small bag or receptacle, in the hollow at the root of these teeth; but
I never had the opportunity afterwards to make a farther discovery of
that.

I will likewise give you a story of the violent effects of this sort of
poison, because I depend upon the truth of it, having it from an
acquaintance of mine of good credit, one Colonel James Taylor, of
Mattapony, still alive, he being with others in the woods a surveying.
Just as they were standing to light their pipes, they found a rattle
snake and cut off his head, and about three inches of the body. Then he,
with a green stick which he had in his hand, about a foot and a half
long, the bark being newly peeled off, urged and provoked the head, till
it bit the stick in fury several times. Upon this the colonel observed
small green streaks to rise up along the stick towards his hand. He
threw the stick upon the ground, and in a quarter of hour the stick of
its own accord split into several pieces, and fell asunder from end to
end. This account I had from him again at the writing hereof.

Musquitoes are a sort of vermin of less danger, but much more
troublesome, because more frequent. They are a long tailed gnat, such as
are in all fens and low grounds in England, and I think have no other
difference from them than the name. Neither are they in Virginia
troubled with them anywhere but in their low grounds and marshes. These
insects I believe are stronger, and continue longer there, by reason of
the warm sun, than in England. Whoever is persecuted with them in his
house, may get rid of them by this easy remedy: let him but set open his
windows at sunset, and shut them again before the twilight be quite shut
in. All the musquitoes in the room will go out at the windows, and leave
the room clear.

Chinches are a sort of flat bug, which lurks in the bedsteads and
bedding, and disturbs people's rest a nights. Every neat housewife
contrives there, by several devices, to keep her beds clear of them. But
the best way I ever heard, effectually to destroy them, is by a narrow
search among the bedding early in the spring, before these vermin begin
to nit and run about; for they lie snug all the winter, and are in the
spring large and full of the winter's growth, having all their seed
within them; and so they become a fair mark to find, and may with their
whole breed be destroyed; they are the same as they have in London near
the shipping.

Seed tick, and red worms are small insec