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not know one another at the distance of twenty 

 paces: but, whereas they were to fly over a river 

 that runs in the rallies of the Red Tower, and could 

 find neither resting-place nor food; being at length 

 tired with their flight, one part of them lighted on 

 the unripe corn on this side of the Red Toirer, such 

 as millet, Turkish wheat, &c.; another pitched on 

 a low wood, where, having miserably wasted the 

 produce of the land, they continued their journey, 

 as if a signal had actually been given for a march. 

 The guards of the Red Tower attempted to stop 

 their irruption into Transylvania by firing at 

 them*; and, indeed, where the balls and shot 

 swept through the swarm, they gave way and di- 

 vided; but, having filled up their ranks in a mo* 

 ment, they proceeded on their journey. In the 

 month of September some troops of them were 

 thrown to the ground by great rains and other 

 inclemency of the weather, arid thoroughly soaked 

 with wet, they crept along in quest of holes in the 

 earth, dung, -and straw; where, being sheltered 

 from the rains, they laid a vast number ' of eggs, 

 which stuck together by a viscid juice, and were 

 longer and smaller than what is commonly called 

 an ant's eggf, very like grains of oats. The 

 females, having laid their eggs, die, like the Silk- 



* In the Eastern parts of the world it is often found necessary 

 fer the Governors of particular provinces to command a certain 

 number of the military to take the field against armies of Locusts 

 with a train of artillery. 



f Which is not the real egg, but the chrysalis of the ant, en- 

 veloped in its oval silken case. 





