[142] _Phil. Trans. Abridg._, ii. 782.
[143] Shaw, _Zool._, vi. 25.
[144] Kirb. and Sp. _Introd._, i. 179.
[145] Anderson’s _Recr. in Agric._, iii. 420.
[146] _Anim. Biog._, iii. 233.
[147] Baird’s _Cyclop. of Nat. Sci._
[148] _Ibid._
[149] Shaw’s _Zool._, vi. 88.
[150] Tennent, _Nat. Hist. of Ceylon_, p. 405.
[151] Donovan, _Ins. of India_, p. 5.
[152] Donovan, _Ins. of China_, p. 13.
[153] Travels, i. 384.
[154] _Ibid._, i. 331.
[155] Cuvier, _An. King.--Ins._, i. 356.
[156] _Introd._, i. 156.
[157] Pliny, xxx. 4; Holland, ii. 377. E.
[158] _Med. Dict._
[159] _Ibid._
[160] Peruvians travel by the light of the _Cucujus Peruvianus_.--See
Kirby’s _Wond. Museum_, ii. 151.
[161] _Hist. of West Indies_, p. 274.
[162] Baird’s _Cyclop. of Nat. Sci._
[163] Stedm. _Surinam_, i. 140.
[164] Cuvier, _An. King.--Ins._, i. 321.
[165] _Conq. of Mex._, i. 327.
[166] _Hist. of New Swed._, p. 162.
[167] _Theatr. Insect._, p. 112.
[168] _Hist. of Amer._, p. 378.
[169] Walton, _Pres. St. of Span. Col._, i. 128.
[170] Humboldt’s _Cuba_, p. 395.
[171] _Saturday Mag._, ix. 229.
[172] _Theatr. Ins._, p. 111. Topsel’s _Hist. of Beasts_, p. 977.
[173] _Tour on the Continent_, 2d. Edit., iii. 85.
[174] Browne’s _Vulg. Err._, B. iii. c. 17. _Works_, ii. 531.
[175] Kirb. and Sp. _Introd._, i. 317.
[176] _Tour on Continent_, iii. 85. 2d Edit.
[177] _Med. Dict._
[178] Harris’ _Col. of Voy. and Trav._, ii. 688.
[179] Harris, _Farm Insects_, p. 372.
[180] This insect has received its English names, of _Mole-cricket_ and
_Earth-crab_, from its burrowing like a mole, and some species of W.
Indian crabs; and, from its supposed jarring song at night, it is also
called _Eve-churr_, _Churr-worm_, and _Jarr-worm_.--_Ibid._
[181] Moufet, _Theatr. Ins._, p. 110. Topsel’s _Hist. of Beasts_, p.
977.
[182] Cuvier, _An. King.--Ins._, i. 382.
[183] Cf. _Works_, ii. 375.
[184] Johnson’s _Eng. Dict._
[185] 4th Past., 1. 101.
[186] In Kirby’s _Wonderful Museum_, ii. 309, there is an article on the
Death-watch, headed “A curious Description and Explanation of the
Death-watch, so commonly listened to with such dread.”
[187] Harper’s _Mag._, xxiii. 775.
[188] Shaw, _Zool._, vi. 34. _Nat. Misc._, iii. 104.
[189] Brand’s _Pop. Antiq._, iii. 226-7.
[190] Horne’s _Introd. to Bibliog._, i. 311.
[191] Wilhelm’s _Recr. from Nat. Hist._, quot. by Latrielle, _Hist.
Nat._, ix. 194. Quot. by Kirb. and Sp. _Introd._, i. 213. Carpenter,
_Zool._, ii. 133.
[192] Brookes informs us that Dr. Greenfield, a practitioner in London,
was sent to Newgate, by the college, for having given Cantharides
inwardly. This happened in the year 1698; but he was soon after
released, by a superior authority, when he published a work upon the
good effects of these insects taken inwardly for strangury, and other
disorders of the kidneys and bladder. We are also told by Ambrose Parry,
that a courtezan, having invited a young man to supper, had seasoned
some of the dishes with the powder of Cantharides, which the very next
day produced such an effect, that he died with an evacuation of blood,
which the physicians were not able to stop. Many other instances might
be brought, continues Brookes, of persons that have been either killed,
or brought to death’s door, by a wanton use of these Flies, which had
been given them privately, with a design to cause love. Some go so far
as to affirm, that people have been thrown into a fever, only by
sleeping under trees on which were a great number of Cantharides; and
Mr. Boyle informs us, after authors worthy of credit, that some persons
have felt considerable pains about the neck of the bladder, only by
holding Cantharides in their hands.--_Nat. Hist. of Ins._, p. 50-1.
[193] Pliny, _Nat. Hist._, xxix. 30.
[194] _Asiatic Res._, v. 213.
[195] Baird’s _Cyclop. of Nat. Sci._
[196] _Med. Dict._
[197] Cuvier, _An. King.--Ins._, i. 569.
[198] Pliny, _Nat. Hist._, xxix. 30.
[199] Sloane, _Hist. of Jamaica_, ii. 206.
[200] Owen’s _Geoponika_, ii. 156.
[201] _Nat. Hist. of Ins._, p. 49.
[202] Cuvier, _An. Kingd.--Ins._, i. 569.
[203] Linn. _Faun. Suec._, p. 822.
[204] Lane’s _Mod. Egypt._, i. 237, ii. 275.
[205] Cuvier, _An. King.--Ins._, i. 568.
[206] Pinkerton’s _Voy. and Trav._, x. 190.
[207] Pliny, _Nat. Hist._, xxix. 6. Holl., p. 370.
[208] _Trans. of Assoc. Phys. in Ireland_, iv., vii., and v., p. 177,
8vo., Dublin, 1824-8.
[209] In Kirby’s _Wonderful Museum_, iv. 360, there are several
instances of living insects being found in the human stomach, quite as
extraordinary as the above.
[210] _The Mirror_, xxviii. 304.
[211] _Hist. of Brazil_, p. 346.
[212] Jamieson gives Grou-grou as a Scottish name for the
Corn-grub.--_Scot. Dict._, iii. 516.
[213] Shaw, _Zool._, vi. 62. Cuvier, _An. Kingd.--Ins._, ii. 80.
[214] Stedm. _Surinam_, ii. 23.
[215] _Ibid._, ii. 115.
[216] _Acct. of the Sierra Leone Africans_, i. 314, note.
[217] Travels, i. 410.
[218] _Gummila_, i. 9. See also Southey’s _Hist. of Brazil_, i. 110.
[219] _Hist. of Barbados_, p. 646.
[220] _Entretenimiento_, vi. § 11.
[221] Canto iii.
[222] _Sketches of Java_, 310.
[223] Ælian, _Hist._ L. xiv. c. 13.
[224] Simmond’s _Curiosities of Food_, p. 313.
[225] _Travels and Researches in S. Africa_, p. 389.
[226] _Monthly Mag._ ii. (Pt. II.) 792, for 1796.
[227] _Book of Days_, i.
[228] _Theatr. Ins._, p. 151. Topsel’s _Hist. of Beasts_, p. 1007.
[229] _The Mirror_, xxxiii. 202, note.
[230] Drury, Ins., i. 9 (Pref.). Shaw’s _Zool._, vi. 73.
[231] Shaw’s _Zool._, vi. 71-2. Merian, _Ins. Sur._, 24.
[232] _Hist. of Jamaica_, ii. 193-4.
[233] _St. Pierre_, _Voy._, 72.
[234] Smeatham, 32. Kirb. and Sp. _Introd._, i. 303.
[235] _Wonders_, i. 18.
[236] Curtis, _Farm Ins._, p. 22. Baird’s _Cyclop. of Nat. Sci._
[237] Owen’s _Geoponika_, ii. 98.
[238] Probably the coriaceous tortoise, which is covered with a strong
hide.
[239] Paladius, B. i. c. 35.
[240] _Med. Dict._
[241] _Gent. Mag._, xxv. 376.--Some authors assert that Ear-wigs are not
in the least injurious to vegetation.
[242] _Hist. of Jam._, ii. 204.
[243] _Med. Dict._
[244] _Hist. of Jam._, ii. 204.
[245] Baird’s _Cyclop. of Nat. Sci._
[246] Quot. by Samouffle, _Ent. Cab._, 1-3.
[247] Baird’s _Cyclop. of Nat. Sci._
[248] Pinkerton’s _Voy. and Trav._, xiii. 108. A beetle, insinuating
itself in the ear of Captain Speke when in Central Africa, caused him
the greatest pain imaginable. It was six or seven months before all the
pieces of it were extracted.--_Blackwood’s Mag._, Sept. 1859. Barth’s
_Central Africa_, ii. 91, note.
[249] Hone’s _Every Day Book_, i. 1121.
[250] _London Labor and London Poor_, iii. 40-1.
[251] _Zool._, vi. 118.
[252] _Theat. Ins._, p. 983.
[253] Harwood, _Grec. Antiq._, p. 200.
[254] Chamb. _Journ._, xi. 362, 2d S.
[255] Carpenter’s _Zool._, ii. 142.
[256] _Penny Mag._, 1841, 2d S. p. 436.
[257] Cuvier, _An. Kingd.--Ins._, ii. 190.
[258] _Present St. of the C. of Good Hope_, i. 99-100. Astley’s _Collec.
of Voy. and Trav._, iii. 366.
[259] Astley’s _Col. of Voy. and Trav._, iii. 381.
[260] _Pres. St. of the C. of Good Hope_, i. 101-2.
[261] _Ibid._
[262] _Trav._, i. 150.
[263] _Ibid._, ii. 65.
[264] Quot. by _Penny Mag._, 1841, 2d S. p. 436.
[265] _Ibid._
[266] _Ibid._
[267] Churchill’s _Coll. of Voy. and Trav._, ii. 23, and Pinkerton’s
_Voy. and Trav._, xiv. 720.
[268] _Trav. in China_, p. 159. Cf. Williams’ _Middle Kingdom_, i. 273.
[269] Ins. Arch., 63.
[270] This superstition I have found in no other place.
[271] Harper’s _New Monthly Mag._, xxiv. 491, 2.
[272] Donovan seems to think that Ovid’s account of the Transformation
of Phaeton’s Sisters into trees, had its origin in some such idea as
this.--_Insects of China_, p. 18, note. See also Chamb. _Journal_, xi.
367, 2d Ser.
[273] Donovan’s _Ins. of China_, p. 19.
[274] Smith’s _Nature and Art_, x. 240.
[275] _Amer. Phil. Trans._, vol. iii. _Introd._
[276] Cuvier, _An. Kingd.--Ins._, ii. 173.
[277] _Nat. Hist. of Barbados_, p. 90.
[278] 4th Pastoral, line 102.
[279] _Mag-astromancers Posed and Puzzel’d_, p. 181.
[280] _Dæmonologia_, 1650, p. 59.
[281] _Elminth._, 8vo. Lond., 1668, p. 271.
[282] _Nat. Hist. of Selborne_, p. 255.
[283] _Tamar and Tavy_, i. 321.
[284] _The Mirror_, xix. 180.
[285] _Astrologaster_, p. 45.
[286] _Notes and Queries_, iii. 3.
[287] _Ibid._
[288] _The Mirror_, xix. 180.
[289] Grose, _Antiq. Prov. Gloss._, p. 121.
[290] _Il Penserosa._
[291] Mouffet, _Theat. Insect._, p. 136.
[292] Harper’s _Mag._, xxvi. 497.
[293] Mouff. _Theat. Ins._, p. 136.
[294] De Pauw, ii. 106.
[295] _Life of Amer. Ins._, p. 114.
[296] _Earth and Animat. Nat._, iv. 216.
[297] Sloane’s _Nat. Hist. of Jamaica_, ii. 204.
[298] _Nat. Hist._, xxx. 4. Holland, p. 378. H.
[299] _Ibid._, xxix. 6. Holland, p. 370. K.
[300] Pliny, _Nat. Hist._, xxix. 6. Holl., p. 371. A.
[301] _Med. Dict._
[302] The Grasshopper, however, according to Mr. Hughes’ description, is
twice as large as the cricket; it being two inches, the cricket but one
inch, in length.--P. 85 and 90.
[303] _Nat. Hist. of Barb._, p. 85.
[304] Athen. _Deipnos_, L. 4, c. 12. The Cercope, or Monkey-grasshopper,
was so called from having a long tail like a monkey, _cercops_.
[305] Pinkert. _Col. of Voy. and Trav._, ix. 612.
[306] _Hist. of West Indies_, p. 121-2.
[307] Voy., ii. 239. Wanley’s _Wonders_, ii. 373.
[308] Quoted in Simmond’s _Curios. of Food_, p. 304.
[309] _Gent. Mag._, xii. 442.
[310] Good, _Study of Med._, iv. 515.
[311] Pinkerton’s _Voy. and Trav._, vii. 705.
[312] _Med. Dict._
[313] _Nat. Hist. of Ins._, p. 67.
[314] _Theatr. Ins._, p. 120. Topsel’s _Hist. of Beasts_, p. 984.
[315] Exod., chap. x.
[316] Of the symbolical Locusts in the Apocalypse it is said--“And the
sounds of their wings was as the sound of chariots, of many horses
running to battle.”--ix. 9.
[317] Cf. Ex. x. 15; Jer. xlvi. 23; Judg. vi. 5, viii. 12; Nah. iii. 15.
[318] Joel, ii. 2-10, 20.
[319] Oros., _Contra Pag._, l. 5, c. 2.
[320] Kirb. and Sp. _Introd._, i. 217; Cuv. _An. Kingd.--Ins._, ii. 206.
[321] Mouff., _Theat. Ins._, p. 123.
[322] Shaw, _Zool._, vi. 137.
[323] _Wonders_, ii. 507.
[324] Shaw, _Zool._, vi. 137.
[325] _Ibid._
[326] _Theatr. Insect._, p. 123.
[327] Cuvier, _An. Kingd.--Ins._, ii. 212.
[328] Bingley, _Anim. Biog._, iii. 258.
[329] _Hist. of Ins._ (Murray, 1838), ii. 188.
[330] _Nat. Hist. of Jam._, quot. in _Gent. Mag._, xviii. 362.
[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.
[341] Dillon’s _Trav. in Spain_, quot. in _Ins._ (Murray, 1838), ii.
205.
[342] _Gent. Mag._, xx. 382; xxiii. 387.
[343] _Ibid._, xlii. 293.
[344] Jackson’s _Trav. in Morocco_, p. 105. Cf. Lempriere, Pinkerton’s
_Col. of Voy. and Trav._, xv. 709.
[345] Cuv. _An. King.--Ins._, ii. 212.
[346] _Gent. Mag._, lxii. 543.
[347] _Ibid._, liii. 526, Pt. I.
[348] _Trav., etc._, 257.
[349] K. and S. _Introd._, i. 219.
[350] _Orient. Mem._, ii. 273.
[351] _Ibid._, iii. 338.
[352] Pinkerton’s _Col. of Voy. and Trav._, viii. 595.
[353] _Ibid._, viii. 613.
[354] _Penny Mag._, 1843, p. 231.
[355] _Narrative_, p. 234, and p. 238.
[356] _Trav. in Morocco_, p. 105.
[357] Jaeg. _on Ins._, p. 103.
[358] Pringle’s _S. Africa_, p. 54. The Missionary Moffat has written
the history of the scourge of 1826.--_Miss. Lab._, p. 447-9.
[359] _Ibid._
[360] _Chinese Repository._
[361] Churchill’s _Col. of Voy. and Trav._, ii. 317.
[362] _Penny Mag._ 1843.
[363] Backhouse, p. 264.
[364] _Kaffraria_, p. 79.
[365] Remy & Brenchley’s _Voy. to G. Salt Lake City_, iv. 440, note;
Burton’s _City of the Saints_, p. 345.
[366] Quot. by Burton, _City of the Saints_, p. 86. Cf. Long’s _Exped._,
ii. 31.
[367] Remy and Brenchley’s _Voy. to G. S. Lake City_, i. 440, note;
Burton’s _City of the Saints_, p. 345.
[368] Lepsius, _Disc. in Egypt_, p. 50.
[369] _Nat. Hist._, xi. 29; Holland, Pt. I. p. 327, F-H.
[370] Owen’s _Geoponika_, ii. 137-8.
[371] _Ibid._, 138.
[372] Pinkerton’s _Col. of Voy. and Trav._, vii. 257.
[373] Volney’s _Trav._, i. 387.
[374] Riley’s _Narrative_, p. 236-7.
[375] Richardson’s _Sahara_, i. 338.
[376] _The Mirror_, xv. 429.
[377] _Pilgr._, ii. 1047.
[378] _Ibid._, ii. 1186.
[379] Baird’s _Cyclop. of Nat. Sci._
[380] _Gent. Mag._, lxxxi. (Pt. II.) 273.
[381] Vide Bochart, _Hierozoic_, L. IV. c. 5, 474-5.
[382] Volney, _Trav._, i. 304.
[383] Robbins’ _Journal_, p. 228.
[384] Southey’s _Thalaba_, i. 171.
[385] Clarke’s _Travels_, i. 348.
[386] _Harleian Miscel._, ii. 523.
[387] _Nature and Art_, vi. 109.
[388] Bochart, _Hierozoic_, Pt. II. L. iv. c. 5, 475.--Much of this
description is quite oriental, but such is the general resemblance to
some of the animals mentioned, that in Italy it still bears the name of
“Cavalletta.” A German name for this Locust, as well as the Grasshopper
(before mentioned), is the “Hay-horse.” About the Locust’s neck, too,
the integuments have some resemblance to the trappings of a horse; some
species, however, have the appearance of being hooded. In the Bible,
Locusts are compared to horses.--Joel, ii. 4; Rev. ix. 7. Ray says,
“_Caput oblongum, equi instar prona spectans_.”
[389] Riley’s _Narrative_, p. 234.
[390] _Ins._ (Murray, 1838), ii. 186.
[391] _Ibid._, 187.
[392] _Ibid._
[393] _Theatr. Ins._, p. 125. Topsel’s _Hist. of Beasts_, p. 988.
[394] St. John’s _Man. and Cust. of Anct. Greeks_, iii. 95.
[395] Diod. Sic. _Hist._, L. III. c. 2. Booth’s Trans., 170-1.
[396] Strabo. _Geog._, L. XVI. c. 4, § 13.
[397] _Nat. Hist._, xi. 26. Holl. Pt. I. p. 325. E. Cf. Pliny, _Nat.
Hist._, xi. 29.
[398] Rob. _Journal_, p. 172.
[399] _Ibid._, p. 228.
[400] Jackson’s _Morocco_, p. 104.
[401] _Ibid._, p. 106.
[402] _Wand. and Adv. in S. Afr._, i. 137.
[403] Riley’s _Narrat._, p. 237.
[404] _Exped. to Africa_, p. 107.
[405] _Cent. Africa_, ii. 30.
[406] Pinkerton’s _Col. of Voy. and Trav._, xvi. 634.
[407] _Travels to C. of Good Hope_, i. 263.
[408] _Ibid._
[409] _Revel._ ix. 2, 3.
[410] Fleming’s _Kaffraria_, p. 80.
[411] Holman’s _Travels_, p. 487.
[412] _Miss. Lab._, p. 448-9.
[413] Quot. in Anderson’s _L. Ngami_, p. 284.
[414] _Ibid._, p. 283.
[415] _Trav. and Res. in S. Africa_, p. 48.
[416] Pinkerton’s _Col. of Voy. and Trav._, x. 189.
[417] Hasselq. _Trav._, p. 419.
[418] _Orient. Mem._, i. 46.
[419] Layard’s _Nin. and Bab._, p. 289.
[420] _Chinese Repository._
[421] _Lord Elgin’s Miss. to China and Japan_, p. 273.
[422] _Middle Kingdom_, ii. 50.
[423] _Voy._, i. 430. Pinkerton’s _Col. of Voy. and Trav._, xi. 49.
[424] _Ibid._, xiv. 128.
[425] Vol. ii. p. 525.
[426] Cuvier, _An. King.--Ins._, ii. 205.
[427] Jackson’s _Morocco_, p. 103.
[428] _Ibid._, p. 106.
[429] _Narrative_, p. 235.
[430] _Chinese Repository._
[431] _Phil. Trans._ for 1698.
[432] _Prov._ xxx. 27.
[433] _Genes._ xvi. 12.
[434] Jackson’s _Travels in Morocco_, p. 105-6.
[435] _Hist. of Greece_, b. i. c. 24.
[436] _Hist. Acct. of China_, b. ii. c. 15, and Church _Col. of Voy. and
Trav._, i. 95.
[437] _Naturalist in Bermuda_, p. 112.
[438] _S. African Sport._, p. 220.
[439] Darwin’s _Res._, p. 159.
[440] _Hist. of Jam._, ii. 261.
[441] Smith’s _Bib. Dict._
[442] _Ibid._
[443] _Travels_, i. 71.
[444] _Egypt and China_, ii. 106.
[445] _Hist. of Brazil_, i. 105.
[446] Baird’s _Cyclop. of Nat. Sci._ The species here referred to was
the _Termes lucifuga_.
[447] _Orient. Mem._, i. 363-4.
[448] Kempf. _Japan_, ii. 127; also Pinkerton’s _Col. of Voy. and
Trav._, vii. 701.
[449] _Orient. Mem._, i. 362.
[450] _Introd._, i. 247.
[451] _Autobiog._, Lond., 1858, p. 222-3.
[452] _Latr. S. Africa_, p. 315.
[453] _Hist. of Brazil_, i. 319.
[454] Kid. and Fletch., _Brazil_, p. 443.
[455] _S. Africa_, p. 315.
[456] _Hist. of Brazil_, i. 319.
[457] Kidder and Fletcher, _Brazil_, p. 442.
[458] Barter’s _Dorp and Veld_, p. 81.
[459] Burton’s _Central Africa_, i. 202.
[460] Tennent, _Nat. Hist. of Ceylon_, p. 412.
[461] Knox, _Ceylon_, Pt. I. ch. vi. p. 24.
[462] _Phil. Trans._, lxxi. 167-8, note.
[463] _Ibid._
[464] _Voy. to Cape of Good Hope_, i. 261; Cf. Alexander’s _Exped. into
Africa_, i. 52.
[465] _Trav. in S. Africa_, p. 501.
[466] Burton’s _Cent. Africa_, i. 202.
[467] Buchanan, i. 7; Forbes, _Orient. Mem._, i. 305.
[468] Kirb. and Sp. _Introd._, i. 308, note.
[469] _Letters written in a Mahratta Camp in 1809._
[470] Backhouse, p. 584.
[471] _Phil. Trans._, lxxi. 167-8, note.
[472] _Memoirs_, vi. 485. Quot. by K. and S. _Introd._, i. 284. Cuv.
_An. Kingd.--Ins._, ii. 315. _Ins. Trans._, p. 373.
[473] Quot. by Shaw, _Zool._, vi. 250.
[474] _Mag. of Nat. Hist._, iii. 516-8.
[475] Gosse’s _Jamaica_, p. 251.
[476] _Gram. and Dict. of the Yoruba Language._ Smithson. Public., p.
xiii.
[477] Cuv. _An. King.--Ins._, ii. 404.
[478] They were produced by that species of Gall-fly, _Cynips_,
delineated by Reaumur in his _Hist. of Ins._, vol. iii. tabl. 40. _The
Mirror_, xxx. 234.
[479] K. and S. _Introd._, i. 33.
[480] Browne’s _Works_, ii. 376.
[481] _Theatr. Ins._, 252. Topsel’s _Hist. of Beasts_, p. 1085.
[482] Hasselquist’s _Travels_, p. 253.
[483] Cuv. _An. King.--Ins._, ii. 424.
[484] _Ibid._, p. 427.
[485] Baird’s _Cyclop. of Nat. Sci._ Cf. Cuv.--_Ins._, ii. 428; K. and
S. _Introd._, i. 318. Medict. Virt. Cf. Geoffroy’s _Treatise on Subs.
used in Physic_, p. 369.
[486] Cuv. _An. Kingd.--Ins._, ii. 428. Cf. Geoffroy’s _Subs. used in
Phys._, p. 369.
[487] Reaum. iii. 416. Cf. Cuv. _Ibid._ ii. 429. K. and S. _Introd._, i.
310.
[488] Smith’s _Introd. to Bot._, p. 346. Olivier’s _Trav._, i. 139. Cf.
_Ibid._
[489] Baird’s _Cyclop. of Nat. Sci._
[490] Herod., B. 3, 102-5. Cary’s _Trans._, p. 214.
[491] Strabo, _Geog._, B. xv. c. 1, § 44. Hamilton’s _Trans._, iii. 101.
Cf. Arrian’s _Ind. Hist._, c. 15. Rooke’s _Trans._, ii. 211.
[492] _Ibid._
[493] Pliny, _Nat. Hist._, B. xi. c. 31. Bost. and Riley’s _Trans._,
iii. 39.
[494] _Ubi supra_, and Strabo, B. xv. c. 1, § 37.
[495] Pomp., _Vita Apollon. Tyan._, B. vi. c. 1.
[496] Bostick and Riley’s _Trans. of Pliny_, iii. 39, note.
[497] Prov. vi. 6. Cf. Prov. xxx. 23.
[498] Smith’s _Bib. Dict._
[499] Holland’s _Trans._, p. 787.
[500] _Guardian_, No. 156-7.
[501] _Nat. Displ._, i. 128.
[502] _Namahl a Namal Circumcidit._--Browne’s _Pseud. Epid.--Works_, ii.
531.
[503] _Poems: Solomon._
[504] _Hymns: The Emmet._
[505] _On the Omnis. of God._
[506] _Par. Lost_, B. vii. l. 484.
[507] _Saturday Mag._, xix. 190.
[508] Lawson’s _Bible Cyclop._, ii. 505.
[509] _Theatr. Ins._, p. 245-6. Topsel’s _Hist. of Beasts_, p. 1078.
Vide Pierius’ _Hieroglyph._, p. 73-6.
[510] Mouf. _Theatr. Ins._, p. 242.
[511] Quot. in Brande’s _Pop. Antiq._, iii. 224.
[512] Harwood’s Grec. _Antiq._, p. 200.
[513] Stosch. Cl., ii. 227-8. Fosbr. _Encycl. of Antiq._, ii. 738.
[514] Quot. in Brande’s _Pop. Antiq._, iii. 134.
[515] _The Mirror_, xxx. 216.
[516] _Pilgrims_, v. 542.
[517] _Theatr. Ins._, 246. Topsel’s _Hist of Beasts_, p. 1079.
[518] The valley seems to be so called from the great number of Ants
which are found there. Some place it in Syria, and others in Tayeb.--_Al
Beidawi, Jallalo’ddin._
[519] _The Koran_, p. 310. Translated by Geo. Sale.
[520] _Trav. in the Levant_, Pt. I. p. 41.
[521] _Land and Water Creatures Compared_, Holland, p. 787.
[522] B. 7, c. 16, p. 665; printed 1613.
[523] Strong’s _Nat. Hist._, iii. 163.
[524] Holland’s _Trans._, p. 787.
[525] Chamb. _Misc._, x. 17.
[526] Kalm in Pinkerton’s _Col. of Voy. and Trav._, xiii. 474.
[527] Chamb. _Misc._, x. 22.
[528] Pinkerton’s _Col. of Voy. and Trav._, xvi. 174.
[529] _Guinea_, p. 276; Astley’s _Col. of Voy. and Trav._, ii. 727.
[530] Du Chaillu, p. 312 and 108.
[531] Allied to the Stinger (_ota_) of Yoruba, and _Idzalco_, “the
fighter which makes one go.”--_T. J. Bowen._
[532] Livingstone’s _Travels_, p. 468.
[533] St. Clair’s _W. Indies_, i. 167-8.
[534] Stedm. _Surinam_, ii. 94.
[535] Of similar size and ferocity as the great Red-ant of Ceylon, the
_Dimiya_, _Formica smaragdina_.--Tennent, _N. H. of Ceyl._, p. 424.
[536] The Cobra de Capello, _Naja tripudians_, Merr.
[537] Knox, _Hist. Rel. of Ceylon_, Pt. I. ch. vi. p. 24.
[538] Stedm. _Surinam_, ii. 142.
[539] K. and S. _Introd._, i. 123.
[540] Smith’s _Nature and Art_, xii. 195. Clavigero supposes that all
the attachment which the snake shows to the Ant-hills proceeds from its
living on the Ants themselves.
[541] _Du Chaillu_, p. 312.
[542] The Swiss farmers, in order to rid their trees of caterpillars,
allure the Ants to climb the trees, where, being confined by a circle of
pitch round the holes, hunger soon causes them to attack the noxious
larvæ.
[543] _Penny Encycl._, _sub._ Ant.
[544] _Hakluyt Society_, ii. 13.
[545] _The Mirror_, xxxi. 342.
[546] Smith’s _Nature and Art_, xii. 197.
[547] _Hist. Nat._, i. 9, and v. 291. Cf. Sloane, _Hist. of Jam._, ii.
221.
[548] _Amer. Utriusq. Desc._, p. 333.
[549] _Ibid._, p. 379.
[550] Southey’s _Com. Place Book_, 3d S. p. 346-7.
[551] Herrera, vi. 5, 6.
[552] _Hist. of Jam._, ii. 221.
[553] Quoted, _Ibid._
[554] _Journ. of Geog. Soc._, 1841, x. 175.
[555] Quot. by K. and S. _Introd._, i. 309.
[556] _Trav. in Swed._, p. 118, Lond. 1789, 4to.
[557] _Ibid._
[558] Jenkin’s _Voy. of U. S. Explor. Exped. Com. by Wilkes_, 8vo.
Auburn, 1852, p. 319.
[559] Cuv. _An. Kingd.--Insects_, ii. 489.
[560] _Ibid._
[561] _Pilgrims_, iii. 996.
[562] James’s _Med. Dict._
[563] _Hist. of Jam._, ii. 221.
[564] Brande’s _Encycl. of Sci. Lit., etc._
[565] Pliny, _Nat. Hist._, xxviii. 7 (23).
[566] Southey’s _Com. Place Book_, 3d S. p. 419.
[567] _Gent. Mag._, Pt. II. lxxiii. 704-5, and Kirby’s _Wond. Museum_,
i. 353-5.
[568] _Land and Water Creatures Compared_, Holl. _Trans._, p. 793.
[569] B. 7, c. xv. p. 664. Printed 1613.
[570] Cuv. _An. Kingd.--Ins._, ii. 472.
[571] _Mem. Berlin Acad._ for 1749.
[572] _Penny Encycl._, _sub._ Ant.
[573] K. and S. _Introd._, ii. 54.
[574] _Pilgrimage_, p. 1090.
[575] K. and S. _Intro._, ii. 54.
[576] Joss. _Voy._, p. 118.
[577] Baird’s _Cyclop. of Nat. Sci._
[578] Purchas’s _Pilgrims_, iii. 998.
[579] Schomburgk’s _Hist. of Barbados_, 640-3; and Coke’s _West Indies_,
ii. 313.
[580] Cuv. _An. Kingd.--Ins._, ii. 471.
[581] Pinkerton’s _Col. of Voy. and Trav._, xiv. 716.
[582] Southey’s _Hist. of Brazil_, iii. 334, note.
[583] Wanley’s _Wonders_, ii. 507.
[584] Thom Browne’s _Works_, ii. 337, note.
[585] Martial, B. iv. 15.
[586] Southey, _Hist. of Brazil_, i. 645.
[587] Owen’s _Geoponika_, ii. 148-9.
[588] _Nat. Hist._, xxix. 29.
[589] Wanley’s _Wonders_, i. 378.
[590] _Theatr. Ins._, p. 40-50. Topsel’s _Hist. of Beasts_, p. 921-7.
Vide Pierius’ _Hieroglyph._, p. 267-8; Pernicies summota; Pugnacitas;
Imperfecti mores civiles; Perturbator.
[591] _Josh._ xxiv. 12; _Deut._ vii. 20.
[592] Kirby’s _Bridgewater Treatise.--Saturday Mag._, ix. 239.
[593] _Phil. Trans._, i. 201.
[594] _Med. Dict._
[595] _Hist. of Beasts_, p. 660.
[596] _Theatr. Ins._, p. 49. Topsel’s _Hist. of Beasts_, p. 657, 927.
[597] _Notes and Queries_, ii. 165.
[598] Owen’s _Geoponika_, ii. 211.
[599] Backhouse’s _Mauritius_, p. 32.
[600] Moufet, _Theatr. Insect._, p. 47. Topsel’s _Hist. of Four-footed
Beasts and Serpents_, p. 925, 655.
[601] William’s _Middle Kingdom_; or _Chinese Empire_, i. 274.
[602] Thom. Bozius _de signis Eccles._, B. 14, c. iii. Quot. by Butler,
_Fem. Monarchie_, c. i. 48.
[603] Quot. in _Notes and Queries_, ix. 167.
[604] _Parley of Beasts_, p. 144. London, 1660.
[605] Bozius, _ubi supra_. Butler, _ubi supra_.
[606] Vicentius in _Spec. Moral._, B. 2, D. 21, p. 3. _N. and Q._, x.
499.
[607] Pet. Cluniac, B. 1, c. i. _N. and Q._, x. 499.
[608] Quot. in _Notes and Queries_, x. 499.
[609] Harwood, _Grec. Antiq._, p. 200.
[610] Pliny, _Nat. Hist._, ix. 18
[611] _Ibid._