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to sell their children, and ac last en pass into 7 bract. But after-wards a vehement winde carried them into the f/ffc/peftt*wherethey were drowned and cast up on the sands which they covered,and prodigiously lived'again of themselves, and wasted allthe Countries adjoymng, and Tbrace , especially threey ears to-gether.
In A£ay r, 5 ®. an innumerable multitude of Grafhop- 6 «
persofan unwonted greatness, and uncertain originals appeared rcbussiculis.m the Province of Catana in Sicilia , which consumed Corn,
Vineyards, Woods, Gardens, and Trees, both domesticlc andwilde, and consumed their barks to the very roots every where *
in one day, and then by a sudden wind were carried into theJvnian' Sea, and there drowned; but being after cast upon theSicilian shore, caused by their stink a. cruel! plague in July fol-lowing..
Swarms of Graflioppers came out of Africa into Italy, andalso into France 1353. an ^ a ^° 1 ? 74 - ruling such a famineand plague, that the third part of the people perished, and they krikn^had most of them six wings, and at last were hurried with a g e ns«.violent winde into the Btitcifh Ocean.
About Mifnia-i 1543- rhete were so many Grasshoppers hcvKu»Llo-that they covered the ground about a cubit thick. ce IU *‘
In all the Dominions'of Pre re Jami is a very great and pnn Aluarc*-.horrible Plague, which is an innumerable company ot Lotusts, Ethiop. Hist-iwhich eate andconfupie ail the Corn and Trees, and the num- C *R- 3 l - * 3 *her of these Creatures is so great, as it is incredible, and withtheir multitude they cover the earth, and fill the air in such wisethat it is a hard matter to be able to fee the Sun 4 and if thedamage which they.doe were general through all the Provincesof Prete Janni, they would perish with Famine,, and it were im-possible to inhabite the seme,, but one year they destroy oneProvince; sometimes in two or three of these Provinces, and)wheresoever they go, the Country remaineth more ruinate and;destroyed, than if it had been set on fire.
These Vermine are as great as a great Grafhopper, and haveyellow wings, we know of their coming a day before, not be-cause we see them, bnt we knovf it by the Sun, which fhew-eth his beams of a yellow colour, which is a signe that they)draw. near the Country, and the ground becoming yellow,.