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NYEP(D.749.047
20 Nov 1749:31 (235)
Extract of a letter from Prague, Sept. 13. We have received
advice the four great swarms of locusts are ravaging the
circle of Pilsen in this Kingdom; and according to letters
from Budweis, a prodigious quantity of those insects had
infected all the country round about that city, in
inhabitants of which, in conjunction with the peasants and a
detachment of the garrison, who took with them eight field-
pieces, did at last drive away the locusts, by firing upon
them with those pieces, making a hedious clatter with
kettles, frying-pans, &c. and ringing all the bells: But
these troublesome guests did not remove far; for within a
league of the town they settled in such great numbers on the
trees that many of the branches broke down under the load. .
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