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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



*' were walking in the streets at that 

 " juncture found themselves cover- 

 " ed with these insects, which settled 

 " also on the hedges and gardens, 

 " blackening all the vegetables where 

 <' they alighted. My annuals were 

 <' discoloured with them, and the 

 *' stalks of a bed of onions were 

 *' quite coated over for six days 

 *' after. These armies were then 

 "no doubt in a state of emigration, 



and shifting their quarters ; and 

 might have come, as far as we 

 know, from the great hop-plan- 

 tatioas of Kent or Sussex, the 

 wind being all that day in the eas- 

 terly quarter. They were ob- 

 served at the same time in great 

 clouds about Farnham, and all 

 along the vale from Farnham to 

 Alton." 



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