Scripture natural history; containing a description of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, amphibia, fishes, insects, molluscous animals, corals, plants, ... Holy Scriptures. Illustrated by engravings - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...four hours in passing over Breslau. In rim LOCUST. 133 August of that year a portion of them reached London. In Norfolk, the trees were as leafless as in winter. Happily, however, we have been comparatively exempted from the awful visitations of this pest. The armies of these terrible invaders are magnificently described in Scripture: Hear this, ye old men, And give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, Or even in the days of your fathers? Tell ye your children of it, And let your children tell their children, And their children another generation. That which the pal.iner-worm hath lelt hath the locust eaten; And that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eaten; And that which the canker-worm hath left hath the oaterpfllaitgfleagen. J. 2-4. They consume like a general confiagration. "Wherever they feed," says Ludolphus, " their leaving seems as if it were parched with fire." Neither herbage, nor shoots, nor leaves, escape them. The appearance 01' them is as the appearance of horses; And as horsemen, so shall they run.--Joei 4. This may refer principally to the fierceness and rapid motion of horses ' but European travellers have been struck with a resemblanbe in figure between the locust while brow sing and horses; and, in Germany, one of the names of the locust is grass-horse; and, in Italy, it is still termed cavafletta. The integugilients aboug its neck, it hasfbeeilil remarkfid, ave some resem ance to t e trappings o a orse. r. Robinson, in travelling from Cairo to Suez, found an insect, either a species of black locust or much resembling it which his Bedouin guide called farasiel-gundy, "soldiers' hoi'ses." Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap,...
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