The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita293recl Year: 1893 TOPOGRAPHY OF AEGENTINA. 431 burnt bricks. ** Earth, trees, and bush,' writes Mr. Knight, ' had all assumed the same curious hue, the effect being something like that of early winter on some of the vegetation of northern Europe. We could not at first conjecture what the strange appearance signified—it was as if some pestilential blast had withered up all the life of the land. On approaching we found this to be a vast multitude of locusts, that were settled so thickly on everything that no twig or
The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita293recl Year: 1893 TOPOGRAPHY OF AEGENTINA. 431 burnt bricks. ** Earth, trees, and bush,' writes Mr. Knight, ' had all assumed the same curious hue, the effect being something like that of early winter on some of the vegetation of northern Europe. We could not at first conjecture what the strange appearance signified—it was as if some pestilential blast had withered up all the life of the land. On approaching we found this to be a vast multitude of locusts, that were settled so thickly on everything that no twig or leaf or inch of bare earth was left visible. There was nothing to be seen anywhere under the sky but the mahogany-coloured bodies of these fearful creatures,- we rode through several leagues of them, and as we rode they rose from under our feet in thousands, with a multitudinous crackling sound as of a huge bonfire, and then Fig. 169.—TucTJMAN. Scale 1 : 1,500,000. Landeli'- i - i^Agua
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