﻿IN 
  CENTRAL 
  EUROrE 
  IN 
  1693. 
  39 
  

  

  into 
  Germany, 
  destroying 
  the 
  crops 
  in 
  their 
  pathway. 
  Ludolf, 
  who 
  was 
  

   an 
  eye-witness 
  of 
  this 
  invasion 
  gives 
  tbe 
  following 
  account 
  of 
  it: 
  46 
  

  

  We 
  had 
  already 
  entered 
  upon 
  tbe 
  autumn 
  of 
  the 
  year 
  1693, 
  when 
  the 
  first 
  intelli- 
  

   gence 
  was 
  heard 
  of 
  the 
  descent 
  of 
  locusts 
  ; 
  they 
  had 
  come 
  over 
  on 
  the 
  3d 
  of 
  August 
  

   into 
  Austria 
  from 
  Hungary, 
  and 
  farther 
  eastward. 
  From 
  there 
  they 
  went 
  into 
  

   Bohemia, 
  and 
  apssed 
  into 
  Voigtland, 
  and 
  into 
  the 
  regions 
  of 
  Altenburg 
  ; 
  then 
  they 
  

   llew 
  across 
  the 
  Baal, 
  and 
  came 
  finally 
  within 
  twenty 
  days 
  to 
  Thuringia. 
  There 
  were 
  

   so 
  many 
  millions 
  of 
  them 
  that 
  they 
  showed 
  thence 
  like 
  black 
  clouds. 
  In 
  the 
  day- 
  

   time 
  when 
  it 
  began 
  to 
  grow 
  hot 
  they 
  raised 
  themselves 
  from 
  the 
  earth 
  and 
  sought 
  new 
  

   pasture 
  ground, 
  but 
  by 
  night 
  they 
  lay 
  a 
  hand 
  (or 
  even 
  half 
  a 
  foot) 
  deep 
  on 
  the 
  ground 
  

   and 
  consumed 
  everything 
  that 
  was 
  green. 
  Some 
  mounted 
  upon 
  the 
  trees, 
  and 
  in 
  such 
  

   multitudes 
  that 
  they 
  bent 
  the 
  branches 
  down 
  to 
  the 
  ground. 
  On 
  the 
  18th 
  of 
  August 
  

   they 
  came 
  through 
  Jena, 
  but 
  these 
  were 
  only 
  the 
  forerunners 
  ; 
  on 
  the 
  20th 
  of 
  August 
  

   at 
  noon 
  they 
  llew 
  over 
  the 
  city 
  in 
  indescribable 
  multitudes. 
  There 
  were 
  three 
  

   bodies 
  which 
  followed 
  at 
  a 
  certain 
  distance 
  from 
  each 
  other, 
  and 
  with 
  such 
  a 
  noise 
  as 
  

   if 
  a 
  great 
  stream 
  were 
  falling 
  from 
  a 
  considerable 
  height 
  into 
  the 
  depths. 
  A 
  south 
  

   wind 
  struck 
  them 
  and 
  drove 
  them 
  toward 
  the 
  north, 
  on 
  to 
  the 
  mountains 
  lying 
  near- 
  

   est, 
  where 
  indeed 
  they 
  destroyed 
  all 
  the 
  grass, 
  but 
  spared 
  the 
  vines 
  and 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  

   trees. 
  The 
  day 
  afterwards 
  as 
  on 
  the 
  third 
  day 
  about 
  nine 
  o'clock 
  they 
  mounted 
  in 
  a 
  

   clear 
  sunshine 
  ; 
  by 
  three 
  o'clock 
  in 
  the 
  afternoon 
  they 
  were 
  all 
  assembled 
  together, 
  

   and 
  flew 
  away 
  as 
  one 
  army 
  ; 
  only 
  a 
  few 
  remained 
  behind. 
  They 
  came 
  to 
  Weimar 
  on 
  

   the 
  20th 
  of 
  August 
  about 
  noon, 
  and 
  covered 
  the 
  ground 
  two 
  hands 
  high 
  about 
  the 
  

   city. 
  All 
  the 
  locusts 
  were 
  yellow, 
  but 
  the 
  males 
  were 
  smaller 
  and 
  brighter, 
  females 
  

   darker. 
  Swans, 
  ducks, 
  and 
  hens, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  swine, 
  eat 
  of 
  them 
  greedily. 
  There 
  en- 
  

   sued 
  a 
  cold 
  rain 
  and 
  frost 
  so 
  that 
  they 
  could 
  go 
  no 
  farther, 
  and 
  so 
  they 
  perished 
  at 
  

   Naumburg 
  and 
  in 
  other 
  regions 
  of 
  the 
  Saal 
  after 
  they 
  had 
  lived 
  in 
  those 
  parts 
  four 
  

   weeks. 
  The 
  people 
  feared 
  for 
  the 
  next 
  year, 
  but 
  nothing 
  farther 
  was 
  observed 
  of 
  new 
  

   locust 
  swanos. 
  

  

  France. 
  Italy, 
  and 
  the 
  other 
  parts 
  of 
  Southern 
  Europe 
  appear 
  to 
  have 
  

   escaped 
  the 
  scourge 
  at 
  this 
  time, 
  but 
  from 
  a 
  letter 
  in 
  the 
  Philosophical 
  

   Transactions 
  (vol. 
  IS. 
  Xo. 
  208), 
  it 
  would 
  appear 
  that 
  they 
  reached 
  Wales. 
  49 
  

  

  48 
  App. 
  2 
  to 
  Hist. 
  Aethiop. 
  

  

  49 
  This 
  invasion 
  gave 
  rise 
  to 
  qnite 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  papers, 
  of 
  which 
  we 
  note 
  the 
  following: 
  L. 
  Ch. 
  CreU, 
  

   "Dissertatio 
  de 
  Loeustis 
  non 
  sine 
  prodigio 
  nuper 
  in 
  Germania 
  eonspeetis." 
  Lipsiae, 
  1693. 
  — 
  G. 
  Wolf. 
  

   Eberlin, 
  "Oratio 
  de 
  prodigioso 
  locustarum 
  agmine 
  quod 
  in 
  diversis 
  Pannoniae 
  et 
  Germanise 
  tractions 
  

   obumbravit 
  solem. 
  terrasque 
  opperuit. 
  an. 
  1693." 
  Altdorf. 
  1693.— 
  G. 
  E. 
  Fesken. 
  "Gottes 
  bedenkliches 
  

   Heuschrekken-Heer. 
  welches 
  sich 
  hin 
  und 
  wieder 
  neulicher 
  Zeit 
  in 
  ungewohnlicher 
  Menge 
  sehen 
  

   lassen." 
  Leipsig. 
  1693.— 
  Melissander 
  Fichtelberacr. 
  Heu! 
  Sehrecken 
  ! 
  Von 
  Heuschrecken, 
  So 
  dieses 
  

   Anno 
  1693. 
  " 
  St. 
  Annaberg. 
  1693. 
  — 
  J. 
  P. 
  Hebenstreit, 
  " 
  De 
  loeustis 
  immenso 
  agmine 
  aerem 
  nostrum 
  im- 
  

   plentibus. 
  et 
  quid 
  portendere. 
  &c." 
  Jenas, 
  1693. 
  — 
  Same 
  author, 
  "De 
  remediis 
  adversns 
  locustas, 
  

   imprimis 
  Pontinciomm 
  methodo 
  expellendi 
  eas 
  per 
  excommunieationem." 
  Jena?. 
  1693. 
  — 
  Caspar 
  Kirch- 
  

   maier. 
  "De 
  Loeustis 
  insolitis 
  tergemino 
  examine 
  et 
  portentoso 
  numero 
  e 
  Thracia 
  Daciaque 
  in 
  

   Pannoniam 
  inferiorem 
  perqne 
  Austriam 
  in 
  Germani* 
  regionibus 
  plures 
  sese 
  infundentibus. 
  tbo." 
  

   Wittenberg. 
  1693. 
  — 
  Ab. 
  Elesel, 
  "Bericht 
  von 
  dem 
  1693 
  gesehehenen 
  Durchzuge 
  der 
  Heuschrecken." 
  

   1693.— 
  Christoph 
  Loeber, 
  "Mit 
  Gott 
  ! 
  Eigentliche 
  Beschreibung 
  des 
  entsetzlich 
  grossen 
  Heusehrecken- 
  

   Heers 
  welches 
  in 
  August 
  — 
  A 
  1693 
  bei 
  und 
  unweit 
  Jena. 
  &c" 
  Jena. 
  1693. 
  — 
  Also, 
  "Beschreibung 
  des 
  

   Heuscbreoken-heeres. 
  " 
  1694. 
  — 
  I. 
  Ph. 
  Freuner, 
  " 
  Dissertatio 
  phenomena 
  locustarum 
  praeeipue 
  nuper- 
  

   rimarum. 
  Jena. 
  1693. 
  — 
  G. 
  A. 
  Wollenhaupt. 
  " 
  Dissertatio 
  locustas 
  et 
  portentosam 
  earum 
  nubem. 
  &e. 
  " 
  

   Erfurt, 
  1693. 
  — 
  Anon. 
  "Eine 
  Heusihreckliche 
  Schreckruthe 
  so 
  zu 
  Plauen 
  im 
  Voigtlande 
  am 
  15, 
  und 
  

   folgenden 
  Tagen 
  Augusti 
  dieses 
  laufenden 
  Jahres 
  1693 
  sich 
  merklich 
  blicken 
  gelassen. 
  ic'' 
  Dresden, 
  

   1693. 
  — 
  Anon. 
  "Heerzugder 
  Heuschrecken." 
  Leip. 
  1693. 
  — 
  i 
  N. 
  Hoepfner. 
  ' 
  Abhandlung 
  iiber 
  die 
  Sturm- 
  

   winde 
  und 
  Heuschrecken.'" 
  Gera. 
  1694. 
  — 
  Job 
  Ludolf. 
  "Appendix 
  secunda 
  ad 
  historiam 
  .Ethiopicam." 
  

   1694. 
  — 
  E.Floyd. 
  "A 
  letter 
  giving 
  an 
  account 
  of 
  locusts 
  lately 
  observed 
  in 
  Wales. 
  Phil. 
  Trans. 
  1694, 
  

   v. 
  18. 
  Xo. 
  208. 
  — 
  G. 
  Oicen. 
  "Extract 
  from 
  his 
  history 
  of 
  Pembrokeshire." 
  Phil. 
  Trans. 
  IC<94. 
  vol. 
  18. 
  Xo. 
  

   208.— 
  Casper 
  Xeuman. 
  " 
  Donnerwetter 
  und 
  Heuschrecken. 
  beide 
  im 
  Jahr 
  Christi 
  1693 
  zu 
  Breslau 
  

   gesehen." 
  Breslau. 
  1694. 
  — 
  Carl 
  Payger. 
  "De 
  loeustis 
  volantibus." 
  Ephem. 
  Acad. 
  Xat. 
  Curios. 
  1694, 
  

   Dec. 
  3. 
  p. 
  29. 
  Also. 
  Bembold. 
  19: 
  and 
  Dreihaupt, 
  645. 
  and 
  accounts 
  given 
  in 
  Ritter, 
  Keffersteu^ 
  

   Fischer, 
  Koppen. 
  &c. 
  

  

  