descended upon the plain of Esdraelon and the neighbouring country,
consuming everything near Jaffa, Nazareth, and through- out Galilee apparently, as a regular army, with pickets thrown forward, main body, and rear-guard. The Rev. J. Zeller, the missionary at Nazareth, gives a striking account of their advance on the nursery gardens round that beautiful village. The whole population turned out to resist them, and kept off the advanced- guard by immense fires round the vineyards, but when the body of the army came up every effort failed,—they fell like a flood upon the land, and not for many hours longer was it possible even to keep them out of the houses by shutting every window and door. Every time a door opened to admit or let out any one in rushed locusts like a draught of air, and at last they gave it up, and let the rooms swarm with them as did the outer country. Every green leaf is eaten up, milk and oil destroyed, and the only remaining provisions were corn and meat, which were very dear. The words of Exodus are once more literally fulfilled:—"I will bring the locusts unto thy coast : and they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth : and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field : and they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants."
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