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not know one another at the distance of twenty 
paces: but, whereas they were to fly over a river 
that runs in the vallies of the Red Tozver, and could 
find neither resting-place nor food- being at length 
tired with their flight, one part of them lighted on 
the unripe corn on this side of the Red Toxver, such 
as millet, Turkish wheat, &c.; another pitched on 
a low wood, where, having miserably wasted the 
produce of the land, they continued their journey, 
as if a signal had actually been given for a march. 
The guards of the Red Tower attempted to stop 
their irruption into Transylvania by firing at 
them^j and, indeed, where the balls and shot 
swept through the swarm, they gave way and di- 
videdj but, having filled up their ranks in a mo- 
ment, they proceeded on their journey. In the 
month of September some troops of them were 
thrown to the ground by great rains and other 
inclemency of the weather, and thoroughly soaked 
with wet, they crept along in quest of holes in the 
earth, dung, and straw; where, being sheltered 
from the rains, they laid a vast number of eggs, 
which stuck together by a viscid juice, and were 
longer and smaller than what is commonly called 
an ant’s eggf, very like grains of oats. The 
females, having laid their eggs, die, like the Silk- 
* In the Eastern parts of the world it is often found necessary 
for the Governors of particular provinces to command a certain 
number of the military to take the field against armies of Locusts 
with a train of artillery. 
f Which is not the real egg, but the chrysalis of the ant, en- 
veloped in its oval silken case, 
