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BG.749.041
31 Oct 1749:12 (1547)
Leipzick, Sept. 10. We receive very dismal accounts from
all parts concerning the locusts, which encrease more and
more in Germany. According to our letters from Vienna, they
have left the neighbourhood of that city, and took their
flight towards Bohemia and Bavaria, from the last of which
we hear, that they appeared at Aspach, and the Convent of
St. Sauvuer, like a thick smoak, and dispersed themselves
over the districts of Vilhoven, Pfarkirchen, Landau and
Dingelfing. All the bells were immediately rung at the
latter, which however did not prevent these insects from
settling in a marshy place, where they were a span and a
half thick one upon another, but about 200 peasants coming
with flails and large sticks kill'd a great number of them,
and buried them upon the spot. . . [16 more lines]
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