GREAT LOCUST. 
sius tells US that, in the year of the world 
3800, there was an incredible number of Lo- 
custs, which infested Africa : and, after hav- 
ing eaten up every thing that was green, they 
flew oft, and were drowned in the African sea; 
where they caused such a stench, that the pu- 
trifying bodies of hundreds of thousands of 
men could not equal it !" 
In Barbary, where tlieir numbers are for- 
midable, and their visits frequent, Dr. Shaw- 
was a witness \ of their devastations, in 1724. 
He gives a very circumstantial account of their 
progress ; and informs us that, at length, after 
compleating their ravages, and laying their 
eggs, they entirely dispersed, diredled their 
course northward, and probably perished in the 
sea. The holes made by these inse6ls, in 
Vv^hich to deposit their eggs, are four feet deep 
in the ground ; and the eggs, which are about 
eighty in number, and of the oblong form and 
size of a Caraway Comfit, are bundled up to- 
gether in clusters. 
It would,'* says Goldsmith, be endless, 
fo recount all the mischiefs which these fa- 
mished 
