| Books - 1709 - 578 pages
...seven years. They have a gov.'rnmc-nt among themselves, similar to that .of the bees and ants ; and when the (Sultan Jerraad) king of the locusts rises,...the trees, consuming first the leaves, and then the baik, so that the country, in the midst of summer, from their unsparing rapacity, bears the face of... | |
| James Grey Jackson - 1809 - 340 pages
...during seven years. They have a government among themselves, similar to that of the bees and ants; and when the (Sultan Jerraad) king of the locusts rises,...their unsparing rapacity, bears the face of winter. * Even the Bo'ah or desert serpent (described in a subsequent page), is not venemous. 52 Locusts. m... | |
| James Grey Jackson - 1811 - 388 pages
...during seven years. They have a government among themselves, similar to that of the bees and ants ; and when the (Sultan Jerraad) king of the locusts rises,...that the country, in the midst of summer, from their general rapacity, bears the face of winter. In my travels, I have seen them so thick on the ground,... | |
| 1812 - 438 pages
...hare a government among themselves, similar to that of the bees and ants ; and when the sultan ,!n .,,..king of the locusts, rises, the whole body follow...solitary straggler being left behind to witness the devastaiion. When they have eaten all other vegetation, they attack the trees, consuming first the... | |
| Hewson Clarke - Europe - 1816 - 690 pages
...during seven years. They have a government among themselves, similar to that of the bees and ants ; and when the (sultan jerraad) king of the locusts rises,...rapacity, bears the face of winter. In my travels (says this gentleman), they were so thick, as sometimesactually to have covered my horse's hoofs, as... | |
| William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1818 - 552 pages
...observes, that " they have a government amongst themselves similar to that of the bees and ants ; and when the (Sultan Jerraad) king of the locusts rises,...follow him, not one solitary straggler being left behindc." But that locusts have leaders, like the bees or ants, distinguished from the rest by the... | |
| William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1818 - 568 pages
...for a famine, for they stay from three to seven years. When they have devoured all other vegetables, they attack the trees, consuming first the leaves and then the bark. From Mogador to Tangier, before the plague in 1799, the face of the" earth was covered by them —... | |
| William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1822 - 618 pages
...for a famine, for they stay from three to seven years. When they have devoured all other vegetables, they attack the trees, consuming first the leaves and then the bark. From Moga' Travelt, i. 348. " Trmeh, &c. 257. C Southcy's Thalaba,\. 1/1. dor to Tangier, before the... | |
| William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1823 - 556 pages
...observes, that " they have a government amongst themselves similar to that of the bees and ants ; and when the (Sultan Jerraad) king of the locusts rises,...him, not one solitary straggler being left behind b." But that locusts have leaders, like the bees or ants, distinguished from the rest by the size and... | |
| Gill's scientific, technological and microscopic repository - 1829 - 416 pages
...for a famine, for they stay from three to seven years. When they haye devoured all other vegetables, they attack the trees, consuming first the leaves and then the bark. From Mogador to Tangier, before the plague in 1 799, the face of the earth was covered by them. At... | |
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