 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1818 - 568 pages
...proof of their power to pass ther sea under favourable circumstances). The column they composed, my friend was informed, extended five hundred miles;...quite invisible. This was not the Gryllus migratorius, L., but a red species ; which circumstance much increased the horror of the scene; for, clustering... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1822 - 618 pages
...proof of their power to pass the sea under favourable circumstances). The column they composed, my friend was informed, extended five hundred miles;...yards were rendered quite invisible. This was not the Grylha migratorius, L., but a red species; which circumstance much increased the horror of the scene;... | |
 | 1825 - 628 pages
...extended five hundred miles ! So compact was their body, when on the wing, that, like au eclipse, they completely hid the sun, so that no shadow was cast by any object ; and some lofty tombs at a very short distance were rendered quite invisible. What added to the horror of the scene was their... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 598 pages
...Mahratta country, and was supposed to have come from Arabia. " The column they composed," says he, " extended five hundred miles ; and so compact was it...and some lofty tombs distant from his residence not two Jiundred yards, were rendered quite invisible.11 The noise they make in browsing on the trees and... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 638 pages
...extended five hundred miles ! So compact was their body, when on the wing, that, like an eclipse, they completely hid the sun, so that no shadow was cast by any object ; and some lofty tombs at a very short distance were rendered quite invisible. What added to the horror of the scene was their... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 648 pages
...extended five hundred miles ! So compact was their body, when on the wing, that, like an eclipse, they completely hid the sun, so that no shadow was cast by any object ; and some lofly tombs at a very short distance were rendered quite invisible. What added to the horror of the... | |
 | 1828 - 586 pages
...and so compact, that, when on the wing, like an eclipse, it completely hid the sun, so that V. о ^Л no shadow was cast by any object, and some lofty tombs,...residence not more than two hundred yards, were rendered quito invisible. 8th. Mr. Barren states a still nioro striking view of the ravages of the locusts in... | |
 | James Rennie, John Obadiah Westwood - 1835 - 332 pages
...species devastated the Mahratta country. The column extended five hundred miles, and was so compact, when on the wing, that, like an eclipse, it completely...shadow was cast by any object, and some lofty tombs two hundred yards distant were rendered quite invisible. To add to the horror of the scene, they were... | |
 | William Swainson - 1840 - 394 pages
...immense army of locusts which ravaged the Mahratta country. He was assured that this column extended 500 miles, and so compact was it when on the wing, that, like an eclipse, it completely hid the sun. Dr. Clarke compares a flight which he witnessed to a shower of snow, when the flakes are carried obliquely... | |
 | William Goodhugh, William Cooke Taylor - 1843 - 734 pages
...Mahratta country, and was supposed to have come from Arabia. " The column they composed," says he, "extended five hundred miles; and so compact was it...and some lofty tombs, distant from his residence not two hundred yards, were rendered quite invisible. Singular as the permission to eat locusts ir.ay appear,... | |
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The column they composed, my friend was informed, extended five hundred miles; and so compact was it, when on the wing, that like an eclipse it completely hid the sun, so that no shadow was cast by any object, and some lofty tombs distant from his residence... 
