14 LETTERS ON ENTOMOLOGY. 
war, and they shall march every one in his 
ways, and they shall not break their ranks ; 
neither shall one thrust another, they shall walk 
every one in his path : and when they fall upon 
the sword they shall not be wounded. They 
shall run to and fro in the city ; they shall run 
upon the wall; they shall climb up upon the 
houses ; they shall enter in at the windows like 
a thief. The earth shall quake before them, the 
heavens shall tremble : the sun and moon shall 
be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their 
shining !" He further says, c - I will remove 
far off from you the northern army, and will 
drive him into a land barren and desolate, with 
his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part 
toward the utmost sea ; and his stink shall come 
up, and his ill savour shall come up because he 
hath done great things." 
Locusts usually migrate from south to north, 
passing from the deserts of Arabia, which is the 
great cradle of them, to Palestine, Syria, Car- 
mania, Natolia, Bithynia, Constantinople, Po- 
land, &c. 
Can we ever be sufficiently thankful, my dear 
friend, that we are not visited by this terrible 
scourge ? If we had once felt the consequences, 
we should doubtless be more sensible of our 
