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his obfervatlons are given in detail, but they are the refult of ufeful 

 information, and may be deemed a proper fequel to our concife ac- 

 count of it ; when we confider that his obfervations relate to the 

 fame event and time, the legions of Locufts that appeared in this 

 country, and througholit Europe in 1748. 



* ** I have already," fays Roefel, " given, particulars of thofe 

 dangerous guefts in the beginning of the year 1749, and at the fame 

 time added figures of them t. I fhall now only obferve, that ia 

 the courfe of the fame year, they not only appeared in Poland, 

 Hungary, Auflria, Bohemia, Silefia, Bavaria, but alfo in Franconia, 

 and confequently in the environs of our city. Thanks be to God, 

 they have not been numerous about our city, but from Wind- 

 fheim we have intelligence of the third of September, that they had 

 frightened the inhabitants with their legions, but they departed again 

 on the fourth ; fmce then, a much refpefted patron has kindly fent 

 me, the Imperial and Royal Hungarian Edict oftheprefent 

 year 1749, together with a printed defcription of the Infe£l, and 

 proper inflrudlions to the imperial fubjeds, how to extirpate them, 

 and I thought it neceffary, as they contain much good and ufeful 

 matter, to infert them." Then he proceeds with Bejchre'ibung Deren 

 Anno 1747, &c. &c. or a defcription of the Locuft, as given in the 

 Imperial Edi6l, &c. In the courfe of which, and the defcription 

 in page 145, we are informed, that this Locuft lives three years. 

 The female depofits her eggs in a kind of bag; the eggs are about 

 a quarter of an inch in length : of a flender oblong form, and 

 placed within the bag lengthwife, fo as to form four or five tiers. 

 It is moft advifed to dig for them in this ftate, and burn them ; 

 or if they fhould alight in the winged ftate, as it is known that the 

 noife of bells, &c. will allure them to any particular fpot, it is re- 

 commended to form deep ditches, and decoy, drive, or beat them 

 into the water in multitudes. 



* Under the feftlon Der HeuJchreEien und Grillenfammlung, Sec. &c. Vol. IT, p. 103* 

 \ Referring to his plate 243 of Locusta Germanica and defcription of the Infefts 

 annexed. 



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