GREAT LOCUST. 
killed prodigious quantities with fire-arms, but 
were obliged to desist by the stench of the car- 
cases. They then took their flight, darkening 
the air, towards Bohemia and Bavaria, and did 
vast damage about Pilsen in Bohemia. Being 
driven away from Budweir, by the ringing of 
bells and discharge of cannon, they settled a 
league distant on trees, the branches of which 
broke down with their weight ; and though a 
hundred and sixty sacks of them were de- 
stroyed in the night, by burning straw under 
the trees, they came next morning near the 
town, and soon devoured two cart loads of ha]^. 
They advanced, in Bavaria, to Ratisbon and 
Aichstet, and covered three hundred acres of 
ground in Franconia, 
This," says Goldsmith, is the insert 
that has threatened us so often with it's visita- 
tions ; and that is so truly terrible in the coun- 
tries where it is bred. There is no animal in 
the creation that multiplies so fast as these, if 
the sun be warm, and the soil in which their 
eggs are deposited be dry. Happily for us, 
the coldness of our climate, and the hun.iidity 
of our soil, are no way favourable to their 
produdtion^ 
