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BEP(F.750.002
1 Jan 1750:11 (751)
Prague, Sept. 2. O.S. We have received advice, that four
great swarms of locusts are ravaging the circle of Pilsen;
and we learn from Budweis, that a prodigious number of those
insects had settled in that neighbourhood; but that the
inhabitants and the soldiers of the garrison had found means
to drive them away by firing upon them with eight pieces of
cannon, and alarming them with the noise of the bells.
Their flight, however, was not very far; for about [blank]
league from the town they settled in such quantities upon
the trees that several of the branches were broke down with
the weight on them. . . [6 lines]
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