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another at the distance of twenty paces ; but, 

 whereas they were to fly over a river that 

 runs into the vallies of the Red Tower, and 

 could find neither resting place nor food ; 

 being at length tired with their flight, one 

 part of them lighted on the unripe corn on 

 this side of the Red Tower, such as millet, 

 Turkish wheat, &c. Another pitched on a 

 low wood, where, having miserably wasted 

 the produce of the land, they continued their 

 journey, as if a signal had actually been 

 given for a march. The guards of the Red 

 Tower attempted to stop their irruption into 

 Transylvania by firing at them ;* and in- 

 deed, where the bails and shot swept through 

 the swarm, they gave way and divided ; but 

 having filled up their ranks in a moment, 

 they proceeded on their journey. In the 

 month of September, some troops of them 

 were thrown to the ground by great rains, 

 and other inclemency of the weather, and, 



* In the eastern parts of the world it is often 

 found necessary for the governors of particular 

 provinces to command a certain number of the 

 mihtary to take the field against armies of Locust?, 

 with a train of artillery. 



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