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ft Part of a Letter from Mr. Edward JFloy3 ^ 
Citn. Aflim. Oxon. To Dr. M. Lifter, gi- 
ving an Account of Locufts lately obfurmd in 
Wales. 
5 7 R, 
YO U have probably been already informed from 
fome other Parts of the Kingdom, of fwarms 
of Locujls that have lately appeared on our Britijh 
Coafts. However becaufe I am not certain that they 
have been obferved elfewhere, I lhall take this Occafion 
of giving you what Account I can at prefenr, of fome 
that have been feen in Wales. As far as I have been 
yet informed, they were firft feen on the xoth. of OBo- 
ier^ fcattered about the Fields in Marthery Parifh, Pem- 
Irokejhirey where they were generally taken notice of , 
at firft, becaufe of the unfeafonablenefs of the time for 
Graflioppers,- but afterwards, for that upon furthr r Ex- 
aminatioa, they found them diftincl fr^am ou?^ Englifh 
Graflioppers, in bignefi, colour, I could not learn 
that any of them have been feen flying in thatCountry | 
but from IJorth Wales I ^rn informed that two vafl: 
fwarms of them had been feen in the A r not far from 
Dil'gelheu^ a Market- Town of Merionydh (hire. I can- 
not aifure you of the time when thefc flyirg LoculJs 
were obferved,but by the date of my Friend's Lettt r, &c. 
I guefs that it was near the fame tim^ tha thofe others 
of Pembroke' fliire had been taken nonce of in tiie Fulds. 
What part of th^ World thefe Creatures ftoulcl ^ ome 
from, I mu^ leave to your Conjt(5ture ; in the mean 
time I C)'^ a(Fare you that they are of the very fa ate 
Sfecks Witli fome African Locujls in my Cuf>o;y m the 
Mttfeum; for which (and many ether valuable Curio- 
H fides) 
