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LOCUST. 
the Philosophical Transactions we find that in the 
year l6g3 some swarms of this species of Locust 
settled in some parts of ATales. Two vast flights 
were observed in the air not far from the town of 
Dol-galken in Merionethshire: the others fell in 
Pembrokeshire. From a letter published in the 
38th volume of the same work it appears that some 
parts of Germany, particularly in the March of 
Brandenburgh, &c. suffered considerable injury 
from the depredations of these animals. The}^ 
made their appearance in the spring of the year 
]73'2, from flights which had deposited their eggs 
in the ground the preceding year. They attacked 
and devoured the young spike of the wheat, &c. and 
this chiefly by night, and thus laid waste many 
acres at a time beyond all hope of recovery. In 
the 46th volume of the same Transactions we find 
a description of the ravages of these animals in 
Walachia, Moldavia, Transylvania, Hungary, and 
Poland in the years 1747 and 1748. 
“ The first swarms entered into Transylvania 
in August 1747: these were succeeded by others, 
which were so surprisingly numerous, that when 
they reached the Red Tower, they were full four 
hours in their passage over that place; and they 
flew so close that they made a sort of noise in the 
air by the beating of their wings against one an- 
other. The width of the swarm was some hundreds 
■of fathoms, and its height or density may be easily 
imagined to be more considerable, inasmuch as 
they hid the sun, and darkened the sky, even to 
that degree, when they flew low, that people could 
