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and all the trees and herbs were destroyed by them, 

 We find this account in the Second book of Moses, 

 Chapter 10th. "And the Grasshoppers went up over 

 all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of 

 Egypt, very grievous were they. For they covered 

 the face of the whole earth so that the land was dark- 

 ened, and they did eat every herb of the land, and all 

 the fruit of the trees which the hail had left, and there 

 remained not any green thing in the. trees, or in the 

 herbs of the field through ail the land of Egypt." 



It will be noticed that I have substituted the word 

 " Grasshoppers" for the word " locusts" as it occurs in 

 our English version of the Bible, but I have before 

 shown that the latter word is incorrect, and that the 

 animal designated in Scripture was not similar to our 

 locust or cicada, but was really identical with the 

 Grasshopper of which we are here speaking. 



According to Pliny, the inhabitants of Cirenaica. 

 in Africa were particularly subject to the ravages of 

 these rapacious insects, and on that account were en- 

 joined by law to destroy Grasshoppers, in their three 

 different conditions, three times during the year : first 

 their eggs wherever the}' could be found, then their 

 young, and lastly the perfect insect. He states also 

 that a similar law was enacted in Lemnos, by which 

 every person was compelled to bring a certain mea- 

 sure of Grasshoppers to the magistrates annually. 



" In the year 591, an infinite army of Grasshoppers 



