. Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer. 75. THE BEE, LITERARY WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, Webnesday, May 23. THE LEMING, OR. LAPLAND MARMOT. Ik our northern climates we can scarcely form an idea of the terrible nature of those plagues of ver- min which distrefsed Egypt; but in warm climates, the ravages committed by insects and vermin are well known, and terrible. Whole countries hava been often laid desolate by locusts ! not a green thing left for the subsistence of man or other animals ; and extensive regions are totally uninhabitable by reason of the swarms of flies which there abound. Wi
. Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer. 75. THE BEE, LITERARY WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, Webnesday, May 23. THE LEMING, OR. LAPLAND MARMOT. Ik our northern climates we can scarcely form an idea of the terrible nature of those plagues of ver- min which distrefsed Egypt; but in warm climates, the ravages committed by insects and vermin are well known, and terrible. Whole countries hava been often laid desolate by locusts ! not a green thing left for the subsistence of man or other animals ; and extensive regions are totally uninhabitable by reason of the swarms of flies which there abound. With -us, rats and mice sometimes become a little trouble- some ; but, compared with the vermin of warm cli- mates, these would be accounted nothing. The /<r- â ming is the only animal in cold regions, which is ever VOL. ix. L t. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Edinburgh
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