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other young Locust* are bred,which in ch^ places where they areleft, will eat, and consume all things, even to the very bark oftrees.

Sciliger «er* Their coming is known by the discolouring of the fields longeitat,i9x. before, for they shine by reflexion.

w Before the birth of Christ, about a 170. years, the Pasturesauen* ' of Italy, were covered as it were wich clouds of GrashoppcrS,° *’ and about Capua a hundred years together.

In the Consulship of Marcus Plant itis Hyps*in, and Marcus. . F ulvitu Flaccus , Africa scarce breathing from bloody

contrTpae*/' 1 * v ' arS > an horrible and extraordinary destruction ensued. For«»*d whereas now throughout all Africa , infinite multitudes of Lo-

custs were gathered together, and had not onely quite devouredthe corn on the ground, and consumed the herbs with part oftheir roots, and the leaves, and tender boughs of the trees, buthad gnawn al so the bitter bark,and dry wood,being with a violentand sudden winde hoisted aloft in mighty swarms, and carriedalong time in the aire , they were at length drowned in the Afri-can Ocean. Whose loathsome and putnfied carfcafscs being bythe waves of the Sea cast up in huge heaps far and wide alongthe shore, bred an incredible stinking and infectious smell:whereupon followed so general a pestilence of all living creaturesthat the corrupt bodies of fowls, cattel, and wildc beasts dis-solved by tbe contagion us the aire, augmented the fury es theplague. But how great and extraordinary a death of men therewas, I cannot bat tremble to report : For in Nttmidia where,Aficipfa was then King , dyed fourscore thousand persons (inthe Kingdom of Mtfliniffa according to Eutr of isss, if I mistakenot» eight hundred thousand. ) And upon the Sea- coast nextadjoyning co Carthage and Vtica-) above two hundred thou-sand are laid to have perished. Yea in tbe City of Vtica itself•' were by this means swept from the face of the earth thirty thou-

sand brave souldiers, which were appointed to bee the Gar*rison for all Africa. And the destruction was so sudden andviolent, that out of one gate of Vtica, in one and the sami day,were carried above fifccecn hundred dead corpse*, of those lustyyoung gallant*.

Georgtui Ce’ j n c he Reign os Bafilius the Emperor, the Eastern parks we'reCcDiptnds consumed by Giashoppen, that the inhabitants were sorted