 | Charles Rochfort Scott - 1838 - 464 pages
...lakes, nor has the name it bears been given from its being impregnated with salt. During our ride, we observed a number of men advancing in skirmishing...locusts into a wide piece of linen spread on the ground at some distance before them, wherein they were made prisoners. These animals are about three times... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1846 - 642 pages
...in the same country we find the following passage : — " During our ride (from Cordova to Seville) we observed a number of men advancing in skirmishing...with long flails. Curious to know what could be the motives for this Xerxes-like treatment of the earth, we turned out of the road to inspect their operations,... | |
 | WILLIAM KIRBY, M.A. F.R.S. F.L.S. - 1858 - 676 pages
...in the same country we find the following passage : — " During our ride (from Cordova to Seville), we observed a number of men advancing in skirmishing...with long flails. Curious to know what could be the motives for this Xerxes-like treatment of the earth, we turned out of the road to inspect their operations,... | |
 | Illinois. Department of Agriculture - 1878 - 568 pages
...Excursions into Ronda Granada," as quoted by Kirby, says : " During our ride from Cordova to Seville, we observed a number of men advancing in skirmishing...most savagely with long flails. Curious to know what might oe the motive for this Xerxes-like treatment of the earth, we turned out of the road to inspect... | |
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... be entirely destroyed. After they have passed, nothing remains but the large branches and the roots, which being under ground have escaped their voracity." And in a late work of travels in the same country we find the following passage : — " During... 