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iity. 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 theDire6lion of theMarches and Flights 

 of them both was always to the Northward, it is probable they 

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

 they have only in common with other winged Creatures. 

 The Locufts Thefe Infedls fprinkled with Salt and fryed, are in Tall, not 

 ^o" ^0 ^^^- i^uch unlike the River Cray-Fifh. The Jews ' were allowed 

 to eat them ; and Ludolphus ' hath an ingenious Differtation, 

 wherein He endeavours to prove that the [anSi^/] Shelloivim or 

 Mifiakevf<r G^ails as wc reudcr it, which the Ifraelites fed upon in the 

 Wildernefs \ were only 2iSfecies of Locufts. But the Fl.Pfalmift, 

 in calling them Feathered Fowls, feems entirely to contradict 

 that Suppolition. Neither hath any Authority, I prefume, 

 Ay^ij^.- vot been hitherto produced for taking ^^1^$^ according to the Greek 

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

 the Name Itfelf being rather derived from the Delire which this 

 Infedt hath of living upon Them'. For the A^^^i defcribed 

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

 Ipeaking of: the LXXII always interpreting [hshn] ^rbah, by 

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

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

 butinfeas. tion. The Ajc^iJ^s 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 

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

 MiiTion at that Seafon. 

 T/^eScorpion. ^hc {^Aclzrab v>*=] Scorpion, in Confideration of It's noxi- 

 ous Qualities, may claim 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 afferted by fome antient Authors \ Thofe on this fide 



I Lev. I J. 22. 2 Viz. in Comment. Hift. Ethiopic. p. i8j. Sec. ^Exod. lo.i^. Numh.ii. ^i. 

 4 In hanc Sententiam (fc. quod dxfiAf crant ancfSfut vel anpa-Sfiat/ vei ay^ifAora, five axfio/uMiti 

 i. e. arbofum, vel herbarum fummitates) propenderunt yithatiaf. Ifid. Eutbym. Tbeophyl. Sec. 

 vid. Pol. Synop. in Mat. 3. 4. & Boch. Hieroz. ]. 4. cap. /• J Ax^/f ^^^ 70 a.Kpat ^ ««- 

 •^m 19 ^ (pwTOK nlt.i^^. Etymolog. Magn. o\_,a. Je-rad, The Arabic Name for thefe Infers 

 hath the fame Sigmficat'ion ; being derived from o^&. avulfit, detraxit : ut folia de ramis &c. 

 vid. Gol. in voce. 6 Arift. Hift. Animal. 1. f. cap. 28. 7 Conftat & feptena ciud^e in- 

 ternodia feviora efTe. Plin. 1. 11. cap. 2j. de Scorpionibus. "ZMf-may ^\,'^7i\bjjaviji a.-iii^av,ti- 

 yireu TASSrfi jt/s^3« .Ts 'fnik etpoyiihaf. Strab, i. 17. K<u wb itH* {x*"" '^"'•^^"^ af^vf. y£tian. Hill. 

 Anim. 1. 6. cap. 20. 



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