GREAT LOCUST« 
injuring mankind by swarming on the produc- 
tions of the earth. The quantity of grass," 
says he, which a few Grasshoppers, that 
sport in the fields can destroy, is trifling; but, 
when a swarm of Locusts, two or three miles 
long, and several yards deep, settle upon a 
field, the consequences are frightful. The 
annals of every country are marked with the 
devastations which such a multitude of inserts 
produce ; and, though they seldom visit Europe 
in such dangerous swarms as formerly, yet in 
some of the southern kingdoms they are still 
formidable. Those which have, at uncertain 
intervals, visited Europe, in our memory, are 
supposed to have came from Africa, and the 
animal is called the Great Brown Locust. 
The doctor then notices, and evidently de- 
scribes from Edwards, the Great Brownish 
Spotted Locusts, as they appeared in England, 
and other parts of Europe, in 1748, 
In August 1749, too, according to the Ger- 
man Journals, these Locusts ravaged part of 
Poland, and the neighbourhood of Vienna ; 
at which last place, the people are said to have 
killed 
