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Show TRAVELS Till OUGII NORTH AMERICA: lar fumigation had ht:cn made, yet wt: fuffcred nearly as much. Thefe inG·c1:s wcr~ of a much brecr fizc than any I ever faw clfewhcre, and t 1cir bite was \l!lCOmmonly venomous. General Wafhi11gton told me, tlut he never w.1s fo much annoye I by mufcp1itocs in :1ny part of America ; 1s in Skcnefborougli', for that th ·y u1cd to bite through the thickdl: boot. The fituatiJn of the place is indeed pcculi:uly favourable for tbcm~ being jufl: 011 the margin of a piece of water, aln!ofl: fi~gm~nt, a.nd tbaded with thick woods. The rnufquito is of the f,unc lpectcs wlth the common ()"n:-tt in Engbnd, ami refcmbles it v ry clofl·ly both in fize and {hap:. Like the gn1t it lays its eggs on the furlace of the water, where they arc hatched in the courle of a few clay , unl cf.'l the water i agitated, in which lafl: cafe they arc all ddhoycd. From the en·g is produced a grub, which changes to a chryfctlis, and afterwards to abmufquito; this laO: change takes place on the {iu-face of the water, and if at the moment that the infcC.l .firft fprcad its w i g the atcr is not pcrfeetly fiill and the air calm, it will be in vit.tbly defl:roycd; at tho[~;; parts of the lake, th -rcfore, which arc mofl: expofed, and where the water is ofu;n agitated, no fn h thing as a mufquito is ever feen; neither arc they ever found along a large and rapid ri ver, where the !horcs arc lofty and dry; but in tbe neighl our hood o[ m:ulbes, low gr0un1 3, and ibgnant vvaters, they always abound. Mnfquitocs appc:u to be particularly fond of the frc01 blood of Europeans, v1ho always fnffer much more the firft year of their arrival in America th.tn they do afterwards. The people of the country fc m quite to difi·cgard th ir attack • Vlherevcr they fix their fiing, a little tumor or pufiule ufually arife3, fnppo f' d o be occafioncd by the fermentation, when mixed with the blood, of a finall <luantity of liquor which the infdl: always injcds into the wound it makes with its fpi ula, as may be fcen through a microfcope, and which it 1 robab1y does to render the blood more fl id. The difagreeable itching this ex itcs is mofl: effcetually allayed by the application of volatile alkali; or if the part n wly O:nng be kratched~ ~mel immediately bathed in cold water, that alfo affords confid.crablc relief; but after the venom has been lodged for any time, fer tching only inCicclkG the itching, and it may be attended with great danger. Repeated jnil:anccs E M B A R K 0 N LA K E C HAM P LA I N. in£lanc s have occurred of people having been laid up for months, and narrowly cfcaping the lo!s of a limb, from imprudently rubbing a part which h1d been bitten for a long time. Great cafe is ali( derived from opening th puflules on the fecond day with a lancet, and letting out the blood and watery matter. LETTER XXI. Embark on Lake C!Jamplain.-D!fjlculty qf'procuring Provlfions at Farms bordering uj10n it.-'fico11deroga.-Crown Point .-Great Rumty ?f th~ Scenery.-Gcneral lJdinj>tion oJ Lake C!JamjJ!ain and tbl! adjacent Country. Crrj>tain 'Tf,oma.r and his Indiam arrive at Cro'Wn Potilt.C! JaraC/er qf' T!Joma.r.-RI!ac/J St. J ohn's.-Dift:ription of t!Jat Place.Great D/fference oljervable in t!~e· Face qf the Country, ln/.?abita11ts, &c. in Canada and in till! States.-C!JaJJ"Jbly Cqj/le.-Caltifbes.-BollS Dieux. -:fo1.em qf La Prarie.-Grcat Rapidity qfthe Ri·ve·r Saint Lmvrmce.Crqfs it to JY[oJitreai.-Ajlouijhment on feeing .farge Shij1s at Montreai.Grctlt Drptb of the River. Montreal, July. S HOR TL Y after our arrival in Skenefborough, we hi reel a iinaU boat of about ten tons for the purpofe of croHing Lake Champlain. It ·was our wi!h to proc cd on the voyage immediately; but the owner of the boat aiferting that it was impoffible to go ont with the wind then blowing, we were for three days detained in Skenc.!borou h, a delicious feafi: for the hungry mufquitoes. The wind iliiftccl again and again, fiill it was not fair in the opinion of our boatman. At bl1, being mofl: heartily tired of our quarters, and fufpeQ:ing that he did not undcrfbnd his hnfinef: as well as he ought to have done, we refolved not t abide by his opinion any longer, but to make an attempt at beating ont, and we had gre<1t rcaion to be plca[ed with having done fo, as we arrived in Can ad |