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peared that they had wings, very like the wings of 
bees, but as yet unripe and unexpanded* and then 
their body was very tender, and of a yellowish 
green: then, in order to render themselves fit for 
flying, they gradually unfolded their wings with 
their hinder feet, as flies do, and as soon as any of 
them found themselves able to use their wings, 
they soared up, and by flying round the others, 
enticed them to join them; and thus, their num- 
bers encreasing daily, they took circular flights 
of twenty or thirty yards square, until they were 
joined by the rest; and after miserably laying 
waste their native fields, they proceeded elsewhere 
in large troops. Wheresoever those troops hap- 
pened to pitch, they spared no sort of vegetable: 
they eat up the young corn, and the very grass; 
but nothing was more dismal than to behold the 
lands in which they were hatched; for they so 
greedily devoured every green thing thereon, be- 
fore they could fly, that they left the ground quite 
bare.” 
There is nothing to be feared in those places 
to which this plague did not reach before the au- 
tumn ; for the Locusts have not strength to fly to 
any considerable distance but in the months of 
July, August, and the begining of September; 
and even then, in changing their places of resid- 
ence, they seem to tend to warmer climates.” 
V Diflierent methods are to be employed, ac- 
cording to the age and state of these insects; for 
some will be effectual as soon as they are hatched ; 
others when they begin to crawl, and others in 
