 | James Wallis Eastburn, Robert Charles Sands - King Philip's War, 1675-1676 - 1820 - 378 pages
...exaggerated, may be seen by a reference to the aulhorhies. Crawled forth the myriad insect host. " It is to be observed,- that the spring before this...of flies, which were like for bigness unto wasps' bumble-bees ; they came out of little holes in the ground, and did eat up the green things, and made... | |
 | Nathaniel Morton - Massachusetts - 1826 - 498 pages
...a pestilent fever, swept away also many of the Indians from many places near adjoining to Plimouth. It is to be observed, that the spring before this...sickness, there was a numerous company of flies, which people had purchased the land, on which they erected their house. Dr. Trumbull observes, that it is... | |
 | Robert Charles Sands - American essays - 1834 - 446 pages
...exaggerated may be seen by a reference to the authorities. , Crawled forth the myriad inseet host. 1 • " It is to be observed, that the spring before this...of flies, which were like for bigness unto wasps' bumble' bees ; they came out of little holes in the ground, and did eat up the green things, and made... | |
 | Robert Charles Sands - American essays - 1834 - 472 pages
...seen by a reference to the authorities. . Crawled forth the myriad insect host. ' • ' '••., " It is to be observed, that the spring before this...of flies, which were like for bigness unto wasps' bumblebees ; they came out of little holes in the ground, and did eat up the green things, and made... | |
 | James Thacher - Indians of North America - 1835 - 426 pages
...for his moral and Christian virtues. ' The spring before this sickness,' says Morton, (Memorial) ' there was a numerous company of flies, which were like for bigness unto wasps and humble-bees; they came out of little holes in the ground, and did eat up the green things, and... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Atlantic States - 1841 - 640 pages
...what are now thought to have been locusts, but which are thus described by the writers of that day. "The spring before this sickness, there was a numerous...company of flies, which were like for bigness unto wasps and humble-bees ; they came out of little holes in the ground, and did eat up the green things, and... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Atlantic States - 1841 - 538 pages
...what are now thought to have been locusts, but which are thus described by the writers of that day : " The spring before this sickness there was a numerous...company of flies, which were like for bigness unto wasps and humble-bees ; they came out of little holes in the ground, and did eat up the green things, and... | |
 | John Ray - Biologists - 1848 - 540 pages
...memory what I read in ' New-England's Memorial,' 1633 : " Plymouth was visited with an infectious fever. The spring before this sickness, there was a numerous...flies, which were like, for bigness, unto wasps, or humble-bees. They came out of little holes in the ground, and did eat up green things, and made such... | |
 | Thaddeus William Harris - Beneficial insects - 1852 - 536 pages
...earliest account that we have of it is contained in Morton's " Memorial," wherein it is stated that "there was a numerous company of flies, which were like for bigness unto wasps or bumblebees," which appeared in Plymouth in the spring of 1633. "They came out of little holes in the ground, and... | |
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It is to be observed, that the Spring before this Sickness, there was a numerous company of Flies, which were like for bigness unto Wasps... 
