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[331.] Churchill’s Col. of Voy. and Trav., v. 33.

[332.] Ins. (Murray, 1838), ii. 188.

[333.] Ibid., ii. 197.

[334.] Gent. Mag., lxx. 989.

[335.] Phil. Trans., vol. xlvi., and Gent. Mag., xvii. 435.

[336.] Ibid.

[337.] Ins. (Murray, 1838), ii. 190.

[338.] Ibid., 191. Dr. Shaw says, Governors of particular provinces of the East oftentimes command a certain number of the military to take the field against armies of Locusts, with a train of artillery.—Zool., vi. 131, note.

[339.] Phil. Trans., vol. xlvi.

[340.] Cuv. An. King.—Ins., ii. 211.