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Footnotes.
{83} Letter XXIV.
{86} Farmer Young, of Norton Farm, says that this spring (1777) about
four acres of his wheat in one field were entirely destroyed by slugs,
which swarmed on the blades of corn, and devoured it as fast as it
sprang.