IN CENTRAL EUROPE IN 1693. 
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into Germany, destroying the crops in their pathway. Lndolf, who was 
an eye-witness of this invasion gives the following account of it: 4B 
We had already entered upon the autumn of the year 1693, when the first intelli- 
gence was heard of the descent of locusts ; they had come over on the 3d of August 
into Austria from Hungary, and farther eastward. From there they went into 
Bohemia, and apssed into Voigtland, and into the regions of Altenburg ; then they 
flew across the Saal, and came finally within twenty days to Thuringia. There were 
so many millions of them that they showed thence like black clouds. In the day- 
time when it began to grow hot they raised themselves from the earth and sought new 
pasture ground, but by night they lay a hand (or even half a foot) deep on the ground 
and consumed everything that was green. Some mounted upon the trees, and in such 
multitudes that they bent the branches down to the ground. On the 18th of August 
they came through Jena, but these were only the forerunners ; on the 20th of August 
at noon they flew over the city in indescribable multitudes. There were three 
bodies which followed at a certain distance from each other, and with such a noise as 
if a great stream were falling from a considerable height into the depths. A south 
wind struck them and drove them toward the north, on to the mountains lying near- 
est, where indeed they destroyed all the grass, but spared the vines and most of the 
trees. The day afterwards as on the third day about nine o'clock they mounted in a 
clear sunshine ; by three o'clock in the afternoon they were all assembled together, 
and flew away as one army ; only a few remained behind. They came to Weimar on 
the 20th of August about noon, and covered the ground two hands high about the 
city. All the locusts were yellow, but the males were smaller and brighter, females 
darker. Swans, ducks, and hens, as well as swine, eat of them greedily. There en- 
sued a cold rain and frost so that they could go no farther, and so they perished at 
Naumburg and in other regions of the Saal after they had lived in those parts four 
weeks. The people feared for the next year, but nothing farther was observed of new 
locust swarms. 
France, Italy, and the other parts of Southern Europe appear to have 
escaped the scourge at this time, but from a letter in the Philosophical 
Transactions (vol. 18, No. 208), it would appear that they reached Wales. 49 
M App. 2 to Hist. Aethiop. 
49 This invasion gave rise to quite a number of papers, of which we note the following : X. C'h. Crell, 
"Dissertatio <le Locustis non sine prodigio nuper in Germania conspectis." Lipsise, 1693. — G. Wolf. 
Eberlin, "Oratio ile prodigioso locustarum agmine (prod in diversis Pannonia? et Germanise tractibus 
obumbravit solein. terrasque opperuit, an. 1693." Altdorf, 1693.— G. E. Fesken, "Gottes bede.nkliches 
Heuschrekken-Heer, welches sich hin und wieder neulicher Zeit in ungewohnlicher Menge sehen 
lassen." Leipsig, 1693. — Melissander Flchtelberijer, "lien! Schrecken! Von Heuschrecken, So dieses 
Anno 1693." St. Annaberg, 1693. — J. P. Hebenstreit, " De locustis immenso agmine aerem nostrnm im- 
plentibus. et quid portendere, &c." Jense, 1693. — Same author, "De remediis adversus locustas, 
imprimis Pontificiorum methodo expellendi eas perexcommunicationem." Jena?, 1693. — Caspar Kirch- 
maier, "De Locustis insolitis tergemino examine et portentoso numero e Thraci.a Daciaque in 
Pannoniam inferiorem perqne Austrian! in Germania? regionibus plures sese infundentibus, &c." 
Wittenberg. 1693. — Ab. Klesel, "Bericht von deni 1693 geschehenen Durchzuge der Heuschrecken." 
1693. — Christoph Lorber. "ilit Gott! Eigentliche Besebreibung des entsetzlich grossen Heuschreeken- 
Heers welches in August — A 1693 bei und tvnweit Jena, &c." .Tena, 1693. — Also, "Besebreibung des 
Heuschreeken-heeres. " 1694. — I. Ph. Freuner, "Dissertatio pha-nomena locustarum pra-cipue nuper- 
rimarum." Jena. 1693. — G. A. Wvllenhaupt. " Dissertatio locustas et portentosam earum nubem, &c. ' 
Erfurt, 1693. — Anon, "Eine Heuschreckliche Schreckzruthe so zu Plauen ini Voigtlande am 15, nnd 
folgenden Tagen Augusti dieses laufenden Jabres 1693 sich merklich blicken gelassen, &c." Dresden, 
1693 — Anon, "Heerzugder Heuschrecken." Leip, 1693. — N. Hoepfner, "Abbandlung iiber die Sturm- 
winde nod Heuschrecken." Gera, 1694. — Job Lndolf. "Appendix secunda ad historiam iEthiopicam. ' 
1694. — E.Floyd, "A letter giving an account of locusts lately observed in Wales," Phil. Trans, 1694, 
v. 18, No. 298.— G. Owen, "Extract from bis history of Pembrokeshire," Phil. Trans. 1694, vol. 18, No. 
208.— Casper Neuman, " Donnerwetter und Henschrecken, beide im Jahr Christi 1693 zu Breslau 
gesehen." Breslau, 1694.— Carl Payger, "De locustis volantibus," Ephem. Acad. Nat. Curios. 1694, 
Dec. 3, p. 29. Also. Kembold, 19 ; and Dreihaupt, 645, and accounts given in Bitter, Kefferstein, 
Fischer, Kbppen, &c. 
