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NYEP(D.748.014
26 Dec 1748:22 (188)
Cracow, August 27. Publick prayers have been put up in all
the churches in this diocese, to beg of Heaven a deliverance
from the dreadful plague of the locusts; . . . [8 lines] We
hear from Zamose, that a great swarm of these insects having
approached that town, they set all the bells a ringing, and
made a great noise in all the adjacent fields with frying-
pans, salt-boxes, butter-tubs, and firing of pistols, &c. by
which means they frightened them away. But soon after a
larger swarm appearing, the same method was tried in vain;
the locusts divided into two bands, one of which continued
their flight towards Wilnozyc; but the other despising the
noise, would not stir till they had left some fields quite
bare. . .
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