GREAT LOCUST, 
liaviiig dusl^y spots, and a larger spot at their 
tips. The under wings are more transparent; 
and of a light brown, tin6lured with green, 
with a cloud ©r dark spot at their tips. Sir 
Hans Sloane, in his Natural History of Ja- 
maica, calls this inse6t, Locusta Maxim.a 
Clnereo Purpurea Maculis Brunis; Dampier, 
in his Voyage Round the World, says that they 
are eaten in countries where they abound ; and 
Dr. Shaw has largely treated of this species, 
in his account of Barbary, &c. This," con» 
eludes Edwards, is the destroying Locust, 
that appears in clouds, and spreads itself, at 
times, to the terror of the inhabitants of the 
warmer climates of Europe, Asia, and Africa." 
The Locust, by it's dreadful devastations^ 
has been knov/n in all ages, and in every na- 
tion. It's names, however, are confounded 
with those of the Grasshopper, and other in» 
se6ls to which it is in semblance allied. 
L. 
Goldsmith, indeed, is of opinion, that the 
Locusts are but larger kinds of our Common 
Grasshoppers; differing from tliem only in 
si'ze, in rapidity of flight, and in the power of 
injuring 
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