nenburg is preferred before all others^ ihatsres25adc ofSah« 
Springs. , ^ , ^ 
So?ne Obfer^ations of [warms of firange InfeBsr 
and the Mijchiefs dmehy them, 
A great Obferver, who hatli lived long in l^ew England^ 
did upon occafionjrclate to a Friend of his in London^ where 
he lately was^ That fomc few Years fince ther^ was fuch a 
fwarmof a certain fort of Infeds in that B^^gljf) Colony, 
that for the fpace of 200 Miles they poyfon'd and deftroyed 
all the Tress of that Country h there being found innume^ 
rable little holes in the ground^ out of which thofe Infeiis 
broke forth in the form of Maggots^ which turned into Fl)ef 
that had a kind of taile or fHngj which they ftruck into the 
Tree^ and thereby envenomed and killed ir« 
The like Plague is faid to happen frequently in the Coun* 
try of the Ct^y^f?!/ or Vkram^ wherein dry Summers they are 
infeftcd with fuch fwarms of Locujhj driven thither by an 
Eafi^ or SoHth^EaJi Wind^ that they darken the Air in the 
faireft weather^ and devour ail the Corn of that Country 5 
laying their Eggs in €/^«^«;5?^^3and then dying s but the Eggs^ 
of which every one layeth two or three hundred^ hatching 
the next Springs produce again fuch a number of Locufts^ 
that then they do far more mifchief than afore, unlefs Rains 
do fall, which kill both Eggs and the Infeds themfelvcs, or 
unlefs a dvong North or North-lVejl Wind arife, which drives 
them into the Euxm^Sesi t The Hogs of that Country loving 
thcfe Eggs> devour alfo great quantities of them, and there- 
by help to porgc the Land of theqn 5 which is often fo mo- 
lefted by this Vermine, that they enter into their Houfcs and 
Beds^ fall upon their Tables and into their Meat, infbmuch 
that they can hardly eat without taking down fome of thcm§ 
in the Night when they rcpofethemfclvcs upon the grounds 
they cover k three or four Inches thick, and if a Wheel pafs 
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