their ingress; but though whole ranks were mowed 

 down, and the swarm divided where the balls and shot 

 told, the chasm was instantly filled up again, and the 

 mass proceeded. In the East governors of particular 

 districts sometimes command the military with a train 

 of artillery to take the field against them. 



Our intelligent friend the Rev. Mr. Davies has 

 kindly favoured us with the following remarkable ac- 

 count of a swarm of locusts which he witnessed, and 

 it may challenge competition with any on record : 



" There are but few of the realities of life which 

 afford to the observer the same ideas of magnitude 

 and sublimity with which previous imagination has 

 invested them. We are fascinated by the descriptions 

 we read in our early and romantic days : we feed our 

 love of the marvellous by perhaps an unconscious addi- 

 tion of circumstances, which, when the anticipated 

 object is once presented to the eye, fade away, and by 

 their unexpected absence as much depreciate the 

 present object below its intrinsic value as by their 

 flattering presence they had placed it above its just 

 level in anticipation. Perhaps it results from the 

 original dignity of the human soul that it is capable of 

 creating an imagery which facts can never realise : 

 perhaps from the perpetual disappointment in our ex- 

 pectations of grandeur and delight, we should learn 

 that this sphere of existence was not appointed as the 

 state where our faculties are to receive their due and 

 legitimate fruition ; but that another world alone can 

 unfold to us those scenes of rapture which can fill and 

 satiate our enlarged desires. To me, certainly not 

 over sanguine in my expectations, disappointment has 

 almost in every instance occurred on beholding for the 

 first time some object of whose magnitude, or beauty, 

 or sublimity, I had previously read. I know but one 



