LOGUbT, OR GRY'LLUS MIGRATORIU3. 1 i5 
tive insects are, in some measure, coun- 
terbalanced by that transient benefit. 
Lucy, Are they found only in those 
countries ? 
Mother, They are natives of all warm 
climates ; and sometimes, being blown 
across the Mediterranean by a strong 
wind, they infest the southern part of 
Europe. 
Lucy, I suppose they have never 
flown so far as England r 
Mother, In the year 1748 we were 
visited by an alarming flight of locusts, 
but fortunately our climate was so cold, 
that few of them survived^ the autumn ; 
all their larvae perished in the winter; 
and since that period England has not 
been molested. 
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