On the Locust of North- America. 57 



11th and 12th. Abundance came out. 



13th. They begin to make a noise* 



14th. Many of them still come out. 



15th. They still come out, in great numbers ; and 

 now there is a continual noise all over our woods and 

 orchards, from morning to evening. They fly about 

 and copulate, 



16th. They begin to dart the twigs and lay their 

 eggs, and continued until June, when they came no 

 more out of the ground. By the 8th of this month, 

 they were all gone. 



In the latter end of April, this year, the locusts 

 came so near the surface of the ground, that the hogs 

 rooted up the ground for a foot deep, all about the 

 hedges and fences, under trees, in search of them. 

 They were then full of a thick white matter, like 

 cream. Yet, in a few hours, the air changed thera 

 into a dark brown. 



It is only the males that make a noise. This they 

 do by a tremulous motion of two air-bladders under 

 their wings. 



The male, In the act of copulation, enters the body 

 of the female, just between the rings of her belly and 

 the root of her dart, by two crooked bodies at the 

 extremity of his tail. As these bodies spread within 



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