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fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set 

 in battle array. Before their faces the people shall 

 be much pained : all faces shall gather blackness. They 

 shall run like mighty men ; they shall climb the wall 

 like men of war; and they shall march every one on his 

 ways, and they shall not break their ranks ; neither shall 

 one thrust another, they shall walk every one in his 

 path : and when they fall upon the sword they shall not 

 be wounded. They shall run to and fro in the city ; 

 they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon 

 the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a 

 tliief. The earth shall quake before them, the heavens 

 shall tremble : the sun and the moon shall be dark, and 

 the stars shall withdraw their shining!" The usual 

 way in which they are destroyed is also noticed by the 

 prophet. " I will remove far off from you the northern 

 army, and will drive him into a land barren and deso- 

 late, with his face toward the east sea and his hinder 

 part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come 

 up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath 

 done great things^! " 



I think, after a serious consideration of all these well 

 attested facts, when locusts contend with the two-legged 

 destroyers of the human race for proud pre-eminence in 

 mischief, you will find it difficult to determine to which 

 the palm should be decreed; and you will admire the 

 propriety with which, in the above and other passages 

 of Holy Writ, they are selected as symbols of the great 

 ravagers of the earth of our own species. 



In many of the above instances these devastators ap- 

 pear to have crossed the seas, but Hasselquist asserts 



•Joel ii. 2-10. 20. 



