jjyg Phyfical and Mifcellaneous 



lity. But they continued not long in this State, before they were 

 entirely difperfed, as their Parents had been before, after the lay- 

 ing of theirEggs ; and as theDireaion of theMarches and Flights 

 ofthem both was always to the Northward, it is probable they 

 periihed in the Sea : a Grave, which, according to thefe People, 

 they have only in common with other winged Creatures. 

 The Locufts Thefe Infeas fprinkled with Salt and fryed, are in Tail, not 

 goodto eat. ^^^^^j^ ^^j^j.^g ^j^g j^-^g^. Cray-Fiflr The Jews ' were allowed 

 to eat them ; and Ludolphus " hath an ingenious DiiTertation, 

 wherein He endeavours to prove that the [cn'j^ij] Shellowim or 

 Mifiakenfcr G^uaiL• as we rcndcr it , which the Ifraelites fed upon in the 

 the Quail, -^j'^^^j^-j^gig 5^ ^^q^q ^^ly ^Spccies of Locufts. But the H. Pialmift, 

 in calling them Feathered Fowls, feems entirely to contradid 

 that Suppofition. Neither hath any Authority, I prefume, 

 ΑψΛ.- rot been hitherto produced for taking Αχ^ΓΛί, according to the Greek 

 'pLT "^ Name, for the Fruit of the Locuft Tree or the Tops of Plants ' ; 

 the Name Itfelf being rather derived from the Defire which this 

 Infea hath of living upon Them^ For the A.cdifti defcribed 

 by .Ariflotle' and other Hiftorians, are the Locufts 1 am now 

 fpeakingof: the LXXII always interpreting [π^ΐίί] ^rhah^hy 

 the fame Word; confequently the Writers of the New Tefta- 

 ment may be fuppofed to have taken It in the fame Significa- 

 lutMeas. tion. The hm^i then, which St. John Baptift fed upon in the 

 Wildernefs, were thefe Locufts ; and provided their Appearan- 

 ces, in the Holy Land, were at the fame Time I faw them in 

 Barhary, It may be prefumed that St. John entered upon His 

 Miflion at that Seafon. 



The [^Ackrah ^^'^^'\ Scorpion, in Confideration of It's noxi- 

 2i,.Scorpion. ^^^ q^^^• ^- ^g^ ^^^y ^laim the next Place after the Locuft. Some 

 of the Species are long and narrow, others of a rounder Shape, 

 and larger; having each of them a Tail confifting of fix Joynts. 

 I never obferved any that had feven, according to what hath 

 been aflerted by fome antient Authors ^ Thofe on this fide 



I Z.fv.ii.22. 2 Viz. inComment. Hift. Ethiopic. p.iSy. &cc. lExoi. 10.13. Numb.ii. 31. 

 4 In hanc Sententiam (fc. quod ώφ.'Λ. erant «Ke.J>J« vcl ^ίγ J>"»^ vel «Jfe^o'^S iu'e «ηο/^« 

 \. e. arborum, vel herbarum fummitates) propendcrunt Jthanaf. Ifid. huthpLrhcophjl Sec. 

 vid. Pol. Synop. in Mat. 3. 4• & Boch. Hieroz. 1. 4• cap .7• y Αχ^κ ^^ το '^-Py^^ ^^• 

 ^«, ^ ^ i^-rir ήμ.,^. Etymolog. Magn. o\j^ Je-rad, The Arabic Name for thefe Infeas 

 hath the fame Signification ; being derived from o,^ avulfir, denaxit : ut folia de ramts &c. 

 vid Gol in voce. 6 Arift. Hilh Animal. ]. y. cap. 28. 7 Conftat & leptena caudce in- 

 ternodia faevioi-a ciTe. P/i«. 1. 11. cap. 2j. de Scorpionibus. τ.ο(^<ο, h,^7iit^a>,^ci.defo>y,M. 

 γ,τοΑ ^λϊθϋί, μψ^ ί« «Λλ «φο/ΛΛ^Λ Strab. 1. 17. Koi ^« ivui. ίχ"' β7»''Λλ« «?θ«77ί. Α^Ιιαη. ΗιΚ. 

 Anim. 1.6. cap..o. ^^^^^^ 



