GREAT LOCUST. 
and the garden of it's beauty ; the visitation 
of a few minutes destroys the expe6lation of 
a year ; and a famine but too frequently en- 
sues ! In their native tropical climates they are 
not so dreadful as in the more southern parts 
of Europe. There, though the plain and the 
forest be stripped of their verdure, the power 
of vegetation is so great, that an interval of 
three or four days repairs the calamity : but 
our verdure is the livery of a season, and we 
must wait till the ensuing spring repairs the 
damage. Besides, in their long flights to this 
part of the world, they are famished by the 
tediousness of their journey, and are therefore 
more voracious wherever they happen to settle. 
But it is not by what they devour, that they 
do so much damage, as by what they destroy. 
Their very bite is thought to contaminate the 
plant, and to prevent it's vegetation. To use 
the expression of the husbandman, they burn 
whatever they touch, and leave the marks of 
their devastation for two or three years ensu- 
ing. Bat if they be noxious while living,, 
they are still more so when dead ; for, where- 
ever they fall, they infecSt the air in such a 
manner, that the smell is insupportable. Oro- 
sius 
