IX. An Account of the Locufts, which didvaft 
Damage in Walachia, Moldavia, <m/Tran- 
fil vania, in the Tears 1747 and 1748; and 
of fome Swarms of them , which, in the 
Months of July and Auguft 1748. came 
into Hungary and Poland ; by a Gentle?nan 
who lives in Tranfil vania. 
Read Feb. 2 -TT is certain that the Locufts came into 
I/48 ' 9 ' Tranfilvania from Walachia and Mol- 
davia, and particularly thro’ thofe narrow Openings 
in the Mountains, which are commonly called Pafles; 
the moft confiderable of which, in the Neighbour- 
hood of Claufenburg , is called the Pafs of the Red 
Tower, and thro’ others not far from Karlfta , which 
are common Roads from Tranfilvania into Moldavia 
and Walachia. 
The fir ft Swarms enter’d into Tranfilvania in 
Auguft 1747: Thefe were fuccceded by others, 
which were lb furpriftngly numerous, that when they 
reached the Red Tower , they were full four Hours 
in their Pafiage over that Place ; and they flew fo 
clofe, that they made a fort of Noife in the Air, by 
the beating of their Wings againft one another. 
The Width of the Swarm was fome Hundreds of 
Fathoms, and its Height or Dcnfity may be cafily 
imagined to be more confiderable, inafmuch as they 
hid the Sun, and darkened the Sky, even to that de- 
gree, when they flew low, that People could not 
know one another at the Diftance of twenty Paces. 
But 
