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them are deflroycd, and we are not infclted ^^itl^ them equally 

 everv year. 



From the generation of thefe creatures, we may make a tranfi- 

 tion to that of Loculls, which are fovmd in Eallern countries, and 

 devour the fruits of the earth, and when they have no other 

 food, devour one another. VVc do not often fee Grafshoppers, 

 (which are fimilar to Locufts) near this town, but I had at one 

 time a parcel of large ones brought to me, which I put into a 

 glafs and fed with vine twigs, but obferving that the large ones 

 devoured the fmaller, I fepan^ted them, and found that the females 

 laid above eighty eggs. Now, if we fuppofe, that Locufts do the 

 fame in extenfive countries where the Maggots are not expofed to 

 tempefts, hea\7' rains, or frofts, (and I am well allured, that Lo- 

 cufts are produced from Maggots, from the obfervations I have 

 made on Grafshoppers in this country, which are of the Ipecies of 

 Locufts), we may eafily conceive that Locufts in thofe countries 

 may multiply to that degree, that they may vifit the neighbouring 

 countries in fwarms. Thefe are merely my fentiments on this fub- 

 je6l, which, however, I think more confonant to right reafon, than 

 the notions of thofe who dream that Locufts come out of the 

 clouds for the punifliment of mankind, as I have often heard in 

 converfation. 



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