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But whereas they were to fly over a River that runs 
in the Vallics of the Red Tower , and could find nei- 
ther Refting-place nor Food; being at length tired 
with their Flight, one Part of them lighted on the 
unripe Corn on this Side of the Red Tower , fuch 
as Millet, 'Turkish Wheat, &c. ,• another Part pitch'd 
on a low Wood : Where having miferably wafted 
the Produce of the Land, they continued their Jour- 
ney, as if a Signal had been actually given for a 
March. The Guards of the Red Tower attempted 
to flop their Irruption into Hranjilvania by firing at 
them 5 and indeed where the Balls and Shot fwept 
thro' the Swarm, they gave way and divided ; but,, 
having fill’d up their Ranks in a Moment, they pro- 
ceeded on their Journey. 
They are of different Forms, according to their 
different Ages : For when, in the Month of Sept em- 
ber , fome Troops of them were thrown to the Ground 
by great Rains, and other Inclemency of the Weather, 
and thoroughly leaked with Wet, they crept along in 
queft of Holes in the Earth, Dung, and Straw; where, 
being fheitered from the Rains, they laid a vaft Num- 
ber of Eggs, which ftuck together by a vifeid Juice, 
and were longer and lmaller than what is commonly 
called an Ant's Egg, very like Grains of Oats. The 
Females, having laid their Eggs, die like the Silk- 
worm ; and we Tranjilvanians found by Experience, 
that that Swarm which enter'd into our Fields by 
the Red Tower , did not feem ro intend remaining 
there, but were thrown to the Ground by the Force of 
the Wind, and there laid their Eggs ; a vaft Number 
of which being turn’d up, and crufhed by the Plough, 
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