224 SCRIPTURE NATURAL HISTORY. 



by deriving the word from guz, or gazaz, to cut, to shear, to minoe. 

 This sharp instrument of theirs has given occasion to Pisidas to 

 compare a swarm of locusts to a sword with ten thousand edges. 

 Caterpillars begin their ravages before the locust, which, as Mr. 

 Taylor observes, seems to coincide with the nature of the creature 

 here intended : * That which the palmer-worm hath left hath theZo- 

 cust eaten ; and that which the locust hath left hath the canker- 

 worm eaten ; and that which the canker-worm hath left hath the 

 caterpittar eaten.' Joel i. 4. 



