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Feet, as Flies do. And as foon as any of them 
found themfelves able to ufe their Wings, they 
foared up, and, by flying round, the others provoked 
them to join them: And thus their Numbers in- 
trcaflng daily, they took circular Flights of twenty 
or thirty Yards wide, until they were join’d by the 
reft ; and, after miferably laying wafte their native 
Fields, they proceeded elfewhere in large Troops. 
Wherefoever thofe Swarms happen'd to pitch, they 
fpared no Sort of Vegetable ; they eat up the young 
Corn, and the yery Grafs s but nothing was more 
difmal to behold than the Lands in which they were 
hatch’d 5 for they fo greedily devoured every green 
thing thereon, before they could fly, that they left 
the Ground quire bare. 
There is nothing to be fear'd in thofe Places to 
which this Plague did not reach before the Autumn * 
for the Locufts have not Strength to fly to any con- 
fiderable Diftance, but in the Months of July y Au~ 
gufty and the Beginning of September y and even 
then, in changing their Places of Refidence, they 
feem to tend to warmer Climates. 
Different Methods are to be employed, according 
to the Age and State of thefe Infers; for fomcwill 
be effectual as foon as they are hatch'd j others when 
they begin to crawl 5 and others, in fine, when they 
are able to fly. And Experience has taught us here 
in Tranfilvaniay that it would have been of great 
Service, to have diligently fought out the Places 
where the Females lodged,* for nothing was more 
cafy, than carefully to vifit thofe Places in March 
and April , and to deftroy their Eggs or little Worms 
with Sticksor Briars j or if they were not to be beat 
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