A dictionary of the . tioned by sacred as well as profaneauthors, are sometimes gregarious be-yond expression. Those which I sawwere much bigger than our commongrasshoppers, and had brown spottedwings, with legs and bodies of a brightyellow. Their first appearance was to-ward the latter end of March, the windhaving been some time from the the middle of April their numberswere so vastly increased that in theheat of the day they formed themselvesinto large and numerous swarms, flewin the air like a succession of clouds,and, as the prophet Joel expresses it, the sun . . shall be
A dictionary of the . tioned by sacred as well as profaneauthors, are sometimes gregarious be-yond expression. Those which I sawwere much bigger than our commongrasshoppers, and had brown spottedwings, with legs and bodies of a brightyellow. Their first appearance was to-ward the latter end of March, the windhaving been some time from the the middle of April their numberswere so vastly increased that in theheat of the day they formed themselvesinto large and numerous swarms, flewin the air like a succession of clouds,and, as the prophet Joel expresses it, the sun . . shall be dark. When thewind blew briskly, so that these swarmswere crowded by others or thrown oneupon another, we had a lively idea of LOC LOG that comparison of the Psalmist, : 23, of being tossed up and downas the locust. In the month of May,when the ovaries of these insects wereripe and turgid, each of these swarmsbegan gradually to disappear, and re-tired into the Metijiah and other ad-jacent plains, where they deposited. Locust Flying. their eggs. These were no soonerhatched, in June, than each of thebroods collected itself into a compactbody of an eighth of a mile square, and,marching afterward directly forward to-ward the sea, they let nothing escapethem, eating up everything that wasgreen and juicy, not only the lesser kindsof vegetables, but the vine likewise, the fig tree,. . the pomegranate tree, thepalm tree also, and the apple tree, even allthe trees of the field, Joel 1: 11,12 ; in do-ing which, they kept their ranks like menof war, climbing over, as they advanced,every tree or wall that was in their way;nay, they entered into our very housesand bedchambers like thieves. The in-habitants, to stop their progress, madea variety of pits and trenches all overtheir fields and gardens, which theyfilled with water, or else they heapedup therein heath, stubble, and such-likecombustible matter, which were sever-ally set on fire upon the approach of thelocusts. But this was
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