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SCG-C.749.067
4-11 Dec 1749:11 (813)
Germany. The Empress Queen is again pregnant: a large army
is kept up and in very good order. The locusts, after
ravaging part of Poland, and the neighbourhood of Vienna
(where they killed multitudes with fire-arms, but were
obliged to desist by the stench of the carcasses) took their
flight, darkening the air, towards Bohemia and Bavaria, and
did vast damage about Pilsen in Bohemia; being driven away
from Budweis by the noise of bells, and discharge of cannon,
they settled a league off on trees, . . .
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