As these Insects abound in all foreign Parts, especially in hotter Climates more than they do here; ’tis on that account all Trading Ships are so over-run with them, that hardly any one thing, if examin’d, will be found free. And as by Shipping they were doubtless first brought to _England_, so are they now daily brought. This to me is apparent, because not one Sea-Port in _England_ is free; whereas in Inland-Towns, Buggs are hardly known. This Metropolis therefore, as having the greatest Number of Shipping, has had the greatest Number imported, and consequently bred in it. You that are free, and would avoid a foreign Supply in your Houses, examine well all things from on board Ships before you admit them into Lodging-Rooms. Chests and Casks, Linnens, and Paper, being stiffened with Paste, afford them Food, and are consequently most dangerous. If you have occasion to change Servants, let their Boxes, Trunks, _&c._ be well examin’d before carried into your Rooms, lest their coming from infected Houses should prove dangerous to yours. Examine well all Furniture that comes in, before you set it up, Beds especially; which I recommend should be plain, and as free from Wood-work as possible, and made to draw out, that the Wainscot and Walls may be better come at, to clear them from Buggs and Dirt. Deal Head-Boards, and Head-Cloths lined with Deal, or Rails of that Wood, avoid. Also Beach-Bedsteds, for all such afford them much Harbour and Food. If for Ornament you use Lace, let it be sewed, not pasted on, for Paste they love much. Oak-Bedsteds, and plain Wainscot Head-Boards, and Tester-Rails of that Wood, allow them the least Harbour, and no Food; such therefore I recommend. If you put out your Linnen to wash, let no Washer-woman’s Basket be brought into your Houses; for they often prove as dangerous to those that have no Buggs, as Cradles, and Bugg-Traps made of the same Wood, often do to those that have them: for the Wood they are made of, affords them much Convenience of Harbour, and great Nourishment. Upholsterers are often blamed in Bugg-Affairs; the only Fault I can lay to their Charge, is their Folly, or rather Inadvertency, in suffering old Furniture, when they have taken it down, because it was buggy, to be brought into their Shops or Houses, among new and free Furniture, to infect them. Builders are more blameable than they: for in Houses built for Sale, old Wainscot-Doors, Chimney-Pieces, &c. are oft put up for Cheapness, painted over, and pass for new; thus the Houses in _Hanover_ and _Grosvenor-Squares_, _&c._ were supplied before inhabited. In taking of Houses, new or old, and in buying Bedsteds, Furniture, _&c._ examine carefully if you can find Bugg-marks. If you find such, though you see not the Vermin, you may assure yourself they are nevertheless infected. * * * * *