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in myriads. Six thousand men sallied forth with flails and other 

 utensils, but all in vain. A liussar coming from the plague com- 

 mittee, though on horseback, was obliged to dismount, and halt 

 for three hours, until the inhabitants drove them from the spot." 

 We have the sane story coming from Asod (Hungary) from 



another source. 



Warsaw, duly 17th; — "From Podolia, Volhvnia and Ukraine, 

 (Southwestern Russia-Poland, by the Hug and the Dniester,) 

 come terrible accounts of the locusts, they cover the country for 

 miles, and are heaped up a foot high." 



Wausaw, Aug. 15. — (This is 400 or 500 miles north of where 

 we hear of them in Hungary,) "The locusts arc within four 

 miles of us. A few of the vanguard ushered in the rest, but none 

 have reached the city. * * The travelers who come hither arc 

 obliged to walk knee deep among them and endure a dreadful 

 stench.*'* 



Aug. 22nt). — "They are now in the neighborhood of Bre&lau, 

 the chief town of upper Silesia, on the Oder. On the 20th, an 

 incredible multitude arrived in Lampersdorff; these they formed in 

 column, and taking flight about noon, continued their passage 

 about four hours over the forest of Minchen. Having passed the 

 Oder, they settled in the country about Ohlan. On the 23d, 

 another swarm came to Patchkau, and fell upon two gardens: be- 

 ing a little straitened in their quarters, they lay one upon the other 

 in heaps to the height of one's knee. A third prodigious 



swarm passed Lorsdorff in the evening. On the 24th, they passed 

 by Schonbrun, Priebron and Siebenhuben, and at length took up 

 quarters in the village of Datzdorff, where they lay one upon the 

 other a full quarter of a yard high. * They made their 



retreat by Arnsterberg, and then passed through the country of 

 Glatz into Bohemia." 



Bebslatt, A i (i. 30TH. — "The dreadful plague of the locust 

 spreads more and more in this province. It is observed that the 

 several swarms which lighted on the divers districts are only de- 

 tachments from the grand body, to which, after foraging a while 

 on the right and left, they repair. You can't conceive the noise 

 made by these insects, as well in their flight as when they rest on 

 the ground. On the 23d and 24th, great quantities fell in the dis- 

 trict of * * *. On the 25th, they took their flight toward the 

 town of Brieg (further up the Oder, to the south), forming a cloud 

 several miles in length, and darkening the sun, so that at a small 

 distance travelers could not descry the town. They were at Keu- 

 dorff on the 26th. Yestcrdav the main bodv of the invincible 



