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LOCUST. 



Gryllus Migratorivs. 

 Migratory Locust. 



This Locust is to be placed among the 

 most noxious of all insects, or those capable 

 of produchtg the most dreadful and extensive 

 destruction. Legions of these animals are 

 from time to time observed in various parts 

 of the world, where the havoc they commit 

 is almost incredible : whole provinces are in 

 a manner desolated by them in the space of 

 a few days, and the air is darkened by their 

 numbers: nay, even when dead they arc 

 still terrible ; since the putrefaction arising 

 ;from their inconceivable number is such, that 

 ^%as been regarded as one of the probable 

 causes of pestilence in the eastern regions. 



