Qn THE PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS.

Their incredible Destruction,— Used as Food. — Re markahle Instance of their destroying every Green Herb on one Side of a River, and not on the othei\ In the autumn of 1792, {Jeraad')\oQMi' began to appear in West Barbary. The corn was in ear, and therefore safe, as this devouring insect attacks no hard substance. In (the liahlii) the period of heavy rains comprised between the forty longest nights, old style, they disappeared ; so that one or two only were seen occasionally : but so soon as the liahli had passed, the small young green locust began to appear, no bigger than a fly. As \egetation increased, these insects increased in size and quantity. But the country did not yet seem to suffer from them. About the end of March, they increased rapidly. I was at (Larsa Sultan) the emperor's garden, which belongs to the Europeans, and which was given to the merchants of Mogodor by the emperor Seedi Muhamed ben Abdallah, in the kabyl of Idaugourd, in the province of Haha, and the garden flourished with every green herb, and the fruittrees were all coming forward in the productive beauty of spring. I went there the following day, and not a green leaf was to be seen : an army of locusts had attacked it during the