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that wee have found all the wayes full of men and women, tra-velling on foot with their children in their arms, and upon theirheads, going into other Countries, where they might findc food,which was a pitifuhthing to behold.

Ouce, Ektnfim makes mention of great Locusts, which Eutropiu, 1 , 4.were fee* not far from the Roman Territory, so formidable, andsuch devourers , that the inhabitants were frighted with the be-holding of them, so that wee must conclude that these small crea-tures have a chief place among Godi Troops and Armies. IfPbaraob ask, tVbo it the Lord I Not Angels, not Men, nor ycc•fierce Lions, and Tygers, but devouring Grastioppers (hall beehis challengers and conquerors, and ask, tVbo it Pbaraob ?

They are all females if wee beleeve Vincenim, and Alberius y ir i C cmiu*<as the Scarabte/ all males. Great droughts produce them , at Vleast cause a prodigious increase of them, 155$, after fiveyears drought,were great Armies of them ; And Pauiut Dreco-ntK reports that in the tenth year of Maurtiiut the Emperourafter a great drought from January to September, there were in-finite multitudes of Locusts, which two years caused a great fa-mine in /fa/j^bytonfuming corn and fruits, and 1542. an innu-merable multitude of Locusts over- spread a great part of £«-rape, at first they wanted wings (being it seems produced by thedrought) after they had two, and then four, and hayirijg wastedone place, wen: unto another, leaving a terrible’ slink after Corneliusrhem wheresoever they had been, but at last with Autumns cpld Gea1ma *were destroyed.

Their extraordinary appearance is (accounted by some) a Hicron.Mer-sign of an approaching plague, sometimes of war, for it is re- curiilf*.ported, that two Armies passing by Ciermtnt into the Rma- Ge^msTu-Territory (a place in France) there fought together,where ron{nl,, '»many of of them were killed ; when CUtarius was about tofight with his fon Cbrannm , whom overcoming , hee caused tobe burnt with his wife and children.

These eaters ate usually eaten by the inhabitants of Arabiadefers #, and of Lybia , who esteem their coming as a fortunate I 0 -Leo lit.;,boading, for seething and drying them in the Sun, they bruisethem to powder, and lo eat them.

And they were the food of John Baptist in the Dcsart, yetthere have been some, as Thnpurlad testifies, who understood

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