2 8 z Mr. Lhwyd to Mr. Ray. 



in the Revolutions of fome Centuries, fuch a thing 



had happen'd. 



You have probably feen, e'er this, the Phil.Tranf* 

 of Fe.br. where there's all the Account I could give 

 of the Locufts, but no Figure of the Animal j tho' I 

 font it up, and Mr. Waller promis'd to have it Engra- 

 ven. I have been informed fince that many of them 

 have been feen amongft the Sea Weeds at Lhyn in 

 Gaernarvonfiire , and alfo in the Severn Sea in Mon- 

 mouth fair e. 'Twas my Sufpicion that the infectious 

 Exhalation of thefe dead Locults might kin<lle, &c. . 

 For, P liny tells us that even whilft they live, mult a con- 

 t®$M adurunt. There has been, and ftill continues, 

 a great mortality of Cartel, Horfes, Sheep and Hogs, 

 about the place where the Fire happen'd} fome lay 

 Cattel were wont to dye there formerly, others only 

 that 'twas no good thriving or feeding Place for 

 them : But all agree in that it never was Infe&ious 

 anything comparably to what has happened this Year. 

 Thefe Locufts, it feems, came alfo la'ft Year into Ger- 

 many y 'And Job Ludolphus (as you find by the inclos'd) 

 dcligns a particular Treatife of them j wherein he'll 

 maintain that the Quails, wherewith the Children of 

 Ifrael were fed in the Wildernefs, were no other than 

 thefe Creatures. 



Mr. Pafchal to Mr. Ray. 



s IF, M 



I Lately received from a worthy Friend in Oxford, 

 in an eminent Station there, Prop [ah for a Me- 

 thod of providing for the Widows and Children of pcrf 

 Clergymen - y which took fo in one County, that in tit 

 ill rt time, by the voluntary Subfcri prions of Clergy- 7 

 men, there was raifed near an i oo per Annum c 



