GREAT LOCUST. 
proda£l:!on ; and, as they are but the animals 
of a year, they visit us, and perish. The Scrip- 
ture, which was written in a country where 
the Locust made a distinguished feature in the 
picture of Nature, has given us several very 
striking images of this animal's numbers and 
rapacity. It compares an army where the 
numbers are almost infinite, to a swarm of Lo- 
custs : it describes them as rising out of the 
earth, where they are produced; as pursuing a 
settled march, to destroy the fruits of the earth, 
and co-operate with Divine Indignation. 
When the Locusts take the field, as we are 
assured, they have a leader at their head, 
whose flights they observe, and pay a stri^l 
attention to all his motions. They appear, at 
a distance, like a black cloud; which, as it ap- 
proaches, gathers upon the horizon, and almost 
hides the light of the day. It often happens, 
that the husbandman sees this imminent calami- 
ity pass away without doing him any mischief; 
and the whole swarm proceed onward, to settle 
upon the labours of some less fortunate coun- 
try. But wretched is the distrlcl: upon which 
they settle! They ravage (be meadow and tlic 
pasture ground; strip the trees of ihcii leaves, 
and 
