iecom rcstkss and agitated on the r apptuach and in order to avoid its attacks, they nie frequenfly seen, in the middle of a hot day, crow thai togcthcr on dry, dusty hives, with their noses held close to the ground, that the iliL's may not be able to get at them.

The enterprising and pious traveller, Mr. Bruce, the crihcps the lbrn:idablc c1flcts of an African fly, called Zimb, which, from its habits, probably is a spccics of this genus. lie ie marks, that, in appearance, it is weak and contemptible; yet, in its consequencu, more fomudable than kre herds of the most, fcio

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the cattle, alarmed biRe Ull bY a1-°l ibrsakc their food, and run w;Idly about th plain till they die, worn out with fatigue, alarm, and hunger. The shepherd has no remedy t secure his flocks from the attacks of this devas tating insect, which produces large bosses, swellings, and putritied sores, all over the body of the aniwa!, which prove its certain destruction, but to abandon the rich plains, and hasten with his charge to the sands of At barn, where his cruel enemy never dares to pursue him.   Isaiah, cant in ucs Mr. Bruce, has given a most striking description of this

destructive insect   " And, it shall conic to pass in that (Jay, that the Lord shall hiss for

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