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terror: we allude to the Locust (Fig. 98). In these countries 

 we are happily exempt from its devastations; but a few 

 detached individuals are occasionally wafted hither, and, in 

 this way, so many as twenty-three species are now recorded 

 as British. For some account of the > 

 ravages which they have at various 

 times committed, we refer to Kirby 

 and Spence's Introduction to En- 

 tomology, vol. i. page 212, where 

 much information on the subject has 

 been carefully brought together. The 

 description given by the Prophet Joel 

 is not less remarkable for its fidelity 

 than its grandeur. "A fire devouretli 

 before them, and behind them a 

 flame bumeth: the land is as the 

 Garden of Eden before them, and 

 behind them a desolate wilderness; 

 yea, and nothing shall escape them. 

 Like the noise of chariots on the tops 

 of mountains shall they leap, like the 

 noise of a flame of fire that devouretli the stubble, as a strong 

 people set in battle array." 



. 1*7. COCKROACH. 



U. 98. LOCUST. 



