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vifiQtK and did a great deal of Mifchief by ftripping 
%e tteciges, Gardens, and Groves of Beech quite naked 
of all their Leaves. 
They begin to be apprehenfive of ihem in the Queens 
(bounty; arid ir: order to defend themfelves againft 
their Incurfions, are rcTolved upon their firft Approach, 
to fire the Mountains between them and the /fhgs Coun- 
ty, that abound nnuch with Heathy and by this means 
raifing a Smoke, they hope they may force them to 
turn their Courie another way, and fo prevent their 
making an Tnrode into thefe Parts. 
Wherever the Country has been infelled with this 
Vermin, by one Confent, though Erroneoufly, they 
hdve given them the Name of Locufts^ being led into 
this Perfwafion, I fuppofe, by thinking that nothing of 
this kind could have been (b Numerousy and done fo 
much Mifchief, but Locu/ls only ; of which, and the 
great Deftruftion wrought by them, they have heard 
mention fo often made in the Scriptures. 
But the true Locuffy much referabling in Shape a Owi- 
mn GraJhoppeVy though larger, is quite a different (brt 
of Infe<a from this, which belongs to that Tribe call'd 
by the Naturalifts KoAw7r7e^^, or Fagimpemist the 
Scaraleus or Beetle Kindy that has ftrong thick Cafes 
to defend and cover their tender thin Wings, that lie out 
of Sight and next the Body. 
This Species is certainly that particular Beetle, call'd 
by Ari(iotle in his Hiftory of Animals MgAoAaj/^t|, from 
its devouring the Bloflbms of Apple TreeSy fie Aldrovan^ 
dus de Infedis, Lib, 4. Tag. 448. and is the Scaraleus 
Arhorem of Moufet and Char letoHy call'd by iht Enghfh^ 
Dorrs or Hedgt-Chaffers y and by the French y Les 
Hametons. 
They 
