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^ro mrfii erodentes^ & fores (ju^ue tefionfm. ItaUam 
€x Africa maxime coort^e, infellmt^ f^pe populo ad 
hylUna coa^io remedia confugere^ impmmetu. Now whe- 
ther this multa contain adnrentes makes any thing for 
the firing of the Hay-ricks I queftion. For i fliouid besee die 
apt to underfiand thofe words, as if they meant only 
Exarefa^ion^ and perhaps Poyfoaiog, not down^ right ^''J;^^';'^, 
Firing or Comhufiion. 
Julius Ohfequens in liiro prddighrum^ p. 69. Edit. Baf. 
1599. Locujiarum ingentia agmina in Africa^ qum a vento 
in mari dejetl^Cy fluilihufque ejeiliB, odore intolerahili Cy- 
renis mortifero vapore gravem pejlilentiam fecerunt pecori^ 
hominumque DCCG r/iillia confumpta taie, proditum efl, 
I was fufpicious of this at the very firft reading of 
Mr. Jones his Letter, and therefore writ to him the very 
fame day I writ to you and Mr. Ray^ to examine the 
Sea Alg^e and Fuci for dead Locufts, 
The like Account alfo Mouf cites out of Otho frifin^ 
^^nfis, ' — Tandem verb in Mare Britannicum fuhlat^ 
vent or urn vi, fluilibus olruehantur, Sed cejlu Oceani in 
litm re]ed(B aerem infecerunt^ pefiemquie anteaila fame 
non minus fievam intulermt. And which comes nearer 
to our pur pole, in Mouf p. 1x3. Peflea per GermaniaU 
err antes ad Mediolanenfem ufq^ue agrum iter cepsrmt^eoqm 
depaflo in Poloniam & Silejtam revertehantur. Tandem 
Novembri { tarn dia.emm vixerant) ut frigorisvi 
tahefa^^e maximum f^torem tkcitafunt^ & nifi fuilm 
aprifque Sylvejlrilm palulo fuiffent^ non minus pefie gra- 
viffma quam fame tarn Germanos quam Itatos affecifet. 
But in Wales there are no Creacures to devour them^ 
iinlefe the Badgers and Crows may take off fbme. 
MlTbe. 
