ON THE 
INJURY DONE TO THE FOLIAGE OF 
THE OAKS 
IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF MANCHESTER 
IN THE SPRING OF 1827. 
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Insxors, though diminutive in size and insignificant 
in appearance, when associated together in large 
numbers frequently become exceedingly formidable 
and destructive. A striking illustration of this fact 
is supplied by the appalling devastation which is 
sometimes occasioned by extensive bodies of Locusts, 
a circumstance thus emphatically described in the 
bold figurative language of the prophet Joel, ii. 2-6 :— 
“A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of 
clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread 
upon the mountains: a great people and a strong ; 
there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be 
any more after it, even to the years of many genera- 
tions. A fire devoureth before them; and behind 
them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of 
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