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while another numerous set of people form a 

 semicircle that takes in both ends of the 

 trench, and encompasses the locusts; and, 

 by making the noise above-mentioned, drive 

 them into the trench, out of which, if they 

 attempt to escape, those on the edges are to 

 sweep them back ; and then crush them, 

 with their brooms and stakes, and bury them 

 by throwing in the earth again. But when 

 they have begun to fly, there should be 

 horsemen upon the watch in the fields ; who, 

 upon any appearance of the swarm taking 

 wing, should immediately alarm the neigh- 

 bourhood, by a certain signal, that they 

 might come and fright them from their lands 

 by all sorts of noise ; and if tired with flying, 

 they happen to pitch upon a waste piece of 

 land, it will be very easy to kill them with 

 sticks and brooms in the evening, or early in 

 the morning, while they are wet with the 

 dew; or any time of the day in rainy 

 weather, for then they are not able to fly, 

 1 have already taken notice that, if the 

 weather be cold or wet in Autumn, they 

 generally hide themselves in secret places, 

 where they lay their eggs, and then die: 



