GRILLE #4. 
~The fk {warms of the locuits entered Tranfylvania in 
“Kugutt, 1747: thefe were fucceeded by others, which were 
fo furprifingly numerous, that when they reached the forti- 
fication called the Red Tower, they were full four hours in 
ir paflage over place ; and they flew fo clofe, that 
they oes afort of noife in the air ra the beating of their 
wings againit one another. The width of the {warm was 
fome hundreds of. fathoms, and its height or denfity fo con- 
fiderable, as to hide the fun, and darken the fky to that de- 
gree.when they flew low, that péople could not know one 
another at the diftance of twenty paces. -Arriving.at the 
river that runs through the vallies of the Red Tower, they 
could neither find refting place nor “be and being at length 
tired with their flight, one part of them fettled on the unripe 
corn onthe hither fide of the Red Tower, fuch as the millet 
and Turkifh w ey &c. and the other pitched on a low wood, 
where, having miferably waited the produce of the land, they 
gagtepsih their j josey, as if afignal had a€tually been given 
oram 
~ The =a of the Red "Tower attempted to op their ir- 
ceienne "ie procenied on thie oe: dia the month *, 
Se eptember, fo 
oats, 
ial is ca 
Were, there was 3 little or no notice Liber of = Bg in 
ae they were covered by the fhooting of the corn cee aS 
€ 
ite not be ioe aah without injuring 
time they differed very little from our com antes a cae 
» having their Sep Tage and back of a dark colour, 
a yellow b he: reft of a reddith hue. 
that 
wel 
but th 
pe 
they of June they caf off their outward covering, and 
eid it oi appeared they had wings, but as yet unripe, 
gi ‘ a body being ‘alfo Bee ae of a yel- 
\ Breen in order to render themfel 
their wings with oat 
of. them found themfelves able to 
, and by flying round | 
tock mee in a circular 
Fc 
aly Boe std their native 
state: ie rae ee 
* ‘ 
. fields, who, u 
fit for a man 
hinder i 
from _ eaftern cm Phe into. the Wet, flying with fu 
oe lame; and at Sts sim deftr 
-d by the > 
a day: their 
they proceeded elfewhere in-large troops.. Wherever thefe 
bodies of locufts happened to pitch, they {pared no fort of 
vegetables: they eat up the young corn, and the ve grafs: 
but nothing was more difmal than to behold the lend in 
which they were hatched; for they fo greedily devoured 
every trace of herbage befure they could fly, that thee % left 
the ground quite bare. here is nothing to be feared in 
thofe places to which this plague did not reach before the 
autumn ; for the locufts have not ftrength to fly to any con- 
fiderable diftance but in the months of July, Auguit, and 
the beginning of September; and even then, in changing 
‘their places of Shdsicc, they -feem to Pig to warmer ch- 
mates. 
he cra where the females had lodged, about March 206: 
Ape and to deftroy their eggs, or little worms, with {ticks 
or briars. In the fummer, when they have invaded the 
corn-ields, it is almoft impoflible to extirpate them without 
thoroughly threfhing the whole piece of land that harbours 
them with flicks and flails, and thus crufhing the locuit with 
the Sta of the land. Finally, when the corn is ripe, or 
but to haetaul the piece of grown 
people, who may fright them away with bells, brafs veffels, 
ai all other forts of noife. But this will not fucceed till 
the fun is pretty high, fo as to dry the corn from the dew ;, 
for otherwife they will either flick to the ftalks, or lie hid: 
under the grafs ; but when they happen to be driven to a 
walte piece of ground, they are to be beat with flicks or 
briars ; and if they gather together in heaps, ftraw or litter 
may be thrown ver them’ and fet on fire. It will be like- 
wite of ufe, where a large troop of them has pitched, to 
dig along trench of an elf Hl wide, and the fame in depth, and 
place feveral perfons alon 
and fuch like — w = 4 number of peop e fo 
beaks to ay cae Fi 
ps cowgtd of the {wa elke wing, 
nse at by a certain 
ten them away aed 
upon a 
fhould Br seats alae the n 
: es that they "Bait come and 
ve been miltaken for birds 
les, not fparing 
dh alo ou ed wg tec rapidly 
on computation, an hundred sl fry se 
Shy is Se 
