remarkable Noife it makes both in its eating and flying, 
from whence likewife it has got its French Name Han' 
neion, (as the judicious Furetiere in bis copious French 
DiBionary tell us^ by Corruption from Al'tton^ quafi 
alis Tonans 
I meet with this fort of Fly fpoken of in the Bible, 
Leviticus Chap. ii. Ver. xi. Joel Chap. r. Ver. 4. 
and Chap. 2. Ver. xj. and Nahum, Chap. 3. Ver. 16,17. 
and it may occur, for ought I know, in ftverai other 
Places ; but I find our Englifh Verfion almoft conftantly 
tranflaces this Word Bf5;;^;o;, though improperly, as I 
think, Cancer Worm^ fince this denotes only a Reptiky 
or creeping Vermin, whereas that Word imports cer- 
tainly a Flying InfeB, For the B^S;^o^ in Chap. 3. Ver 
id, 17. of the Prophet tfahum is exprefly faid to Flie, 
and have Wings, and its Nature and Properties are moft 
truly and particularly defcribed in thefe Words: It fpoil- 
eth and fleeth away, they camp in the Hedges in the Day, 
and when the Sun arifeth they flee away, and their Vlace 
is not known where they are: That is, they then retire 
again to the Hedges and Trees where they lie quiet and 
concealed, till the Sun fets again. > 
If this Pallage be compared with what I have faid 
above of our Irifh 5;|^ot, we muft allow Nahum plaid 
the Natural Philofopher here, in this fliort, but accurate 
Defcription, as well as the Divine Prophet, in denoun- 
' cing God's Judgments. 
In one of the forementioned Texts I find indeed, the 
Word B^S;^o<; more rightly tranflated Locafl or Beetle 
in our Englijh Bibles, and this Place 00 another Account 
(eems fo appofite and agreeable to fomething I (aid before, 
I cannot avoid taking particular Notice of it to your 
Lordfliip, and on this Occafion give you my Thoughts 
more fully concerning tht Rationale of that odd Claufe in 
the Jewijh Lawy whctQ Mofes tells the Ifraelites. Levitt' 
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