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in the country, most probably perished in the gulph of Cambay. 

 A few months afterwards a much larger army alighted on the op- 

 posite side of the Nerbudda, destroyed every vegetable production 

 throughout the Occlaseer purgunna, and gave the whole country 

 the appearance of having been burnt. Each of these flights were 

 brought by an east wind, from whence I cannot say: they com- 

 pletely realized the picture so afFectingly recorded in holy writ. 

 " The Lord brought an east wind all night upon the land of Egypt; 

 and when it was morning the locusts were brought, and went over 

 all the land, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt; very grievous 

 were they; for they covered the face of the whole earth, so that 

 the land was darkened, and they did eat every herb of the land, 

 and all the fruit of the trees, and there remained not any green 

 thing on the trees, or on the herbs of the field throughout all the 

 land of Egypt." 



It has been a matter of dispute between learned commentators 



on the scriptures, whether the animals mentioned by Moses in the 



miraculous supply of food for the Israelites in the wilderness, 



were emails or locusts. Our translators render them the former; 



but, from the description given by the sacred historian, and from 



what I have observed of locusts, I rather incline to the opinion of 



Ludolphus, and the late bishop of Clogher, that they were locusts, 



and not quails, which the children of Israel ate in the desert. 



Moses says, " There went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought 



quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a 



day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the 



other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high 



upon the face of the earth. And the people stood up all that day, 



