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unwieldinefs in the months of ‘January and February . — *■ 
This loculi, which is reckoned a great delicacy both by 
the rich and poor, is eaten frefh after being broiled on the 
coals : It is of the fixe of the top of the finger, and as 
long as the firft joint ; inhabits the low grounds, where 
it breeds, till the winter feafon, when it fpreads over the 
country in vafl fwarms. In all countries where the le- 
cuft is an article of food, it is regularly brought to mar- 
ket, like fhell-fiih or fmall birds in Europe. They limit 
have conftituted a common food among the Jews, fincc 
Mofes, their lawgiver, has condefcended to fpccify the 
different kinds which they were permitted to eat *. 
From participating of this luxury of the yews, howe- 
ver, the inhabitants of Britain may deem tbemfelves hap- 
py in being excluded. Since the year 1748, none of the 
deftruclivc fpecies have vifited this ifland : At that peri- 
od, the great brown locuft was feen in feveral parts of 
England, and many dreadful confequences were appre- 
hended from its appearance. The body of this infect is 
about three inches long ; the antennae are extended about 
one third of this length from the head, which is brown. 
The fhield which covers the back is greenifh ; the upper 
fide of the body is brown, fpotted with black, and the 
under fide is purple. 
The great Wejl Indian locuft, of all the animals of this 
genus, is the moft formidable, when individually confi- 
dered. The body is about the thv.knefs of a goofe quill, 
divided into ten annuli, and is fix inches in length: It 
has two fmall eyes {landing out of the head, like thofe of 
crabs 
* Vide Levit. chap. xi. v. 21. Even thefe thou mayeft eat ; the locuft 
after his hind ; the hald locuft after his kind ; the beetle after his kind , 
and the g.ralhopper after his kind. 
