'A second journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, between the years 1810 and 1816. With a journal of the voyage by the Brazils and Bombay to the Persian Gulf. Together with an account of the proceedings of His Majesty's embassy under Sir Gore Ouseley, Bart. K.L.S. With two maps, and engravings from the designs of the author.' [‎99] (138/516)

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As all was dry in the plain of Shiraz, the same instinct seemed to pro
pel them forwards to countries of more vegetation, and with a small
slant of the wind to the westward they would get into the mountains
of Louriston, where the corn was not ripe ; and where, as the prophet
Joel says, (xi. 3.) after comparing them to a great army,— "they had the
land of Eden before them." Their strength must be very great, if we
consider what immense journies they have been known to make.
Pliny* says they came from Africa to Italy; they have been known in
Scotland, f Mandelsloe saw them in the island of Madagascar, the
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nearest point of which, from Mosambique on the continent, is one hun
dred and twenty leagues.^ This proves them to exist in the southern
hemisphere ; and if Arabia is their native country, as naturalists affirm,
they do not always travel northward, as Shaw seems to think§, but
perhaps take the impulse which the first wind may give them after they
are ready to fly.
I have had opportunities from time to time to make observations on
the locust, particularly at Smyrna, where, in 1800, they committed
great depredations. About the middle of April the hedges and ridges
of the fields began to swarm with young locusts, which then wore a
black appearance, had no wings, and were quite harmless. About the
middle of May they had increased triple the size, were of a gray cin-
dery colour, and had incipient wings about half an inch long. They
still continued to be harmless ; but at the end of June they had grown
to their full size, which was three and a half inches in length ; the
legs, head, and extremities red; the body a pale colour, tending to
red. They appear to be created for a scourge ; since to strength incre
dible for so small a creature, they add saw-like teeth, admirably calcu
lated to eat up all the herbs in the land, and devour the fruit of the
ground. Psalm cv. v. 34. They remained on the face of the country
during the months of July and August, sometimes taking their flight in
vast clouds, and impelled by a strong wind, were either lost in the sea,
* Nat. Hist. lib. xi. c. 29.
X Voyage de Perse, folio, p. 652.
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f Michaelis Quest, xxxii. p. 56.
§ Shaw, 3d ed. vol. i. p. 342*