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Title: Oriental memoirs : selected and abridged from a series of familiar letters written during seventeen years residence in India : including observations on parts of Africa and South America, and a narrative of occurrences in four India voyages : illustrated by engravings from original drawings
Year: 1813 (1810s)
Authors: Forbes, James, 1749-1819 Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865, ill
Subjects: Natural history Natural history
Publisher: London : Printed for the author by T. Bensley : Published by White, Cochrane, and Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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of the land,and all the fruit of the trees, and there remained not any greenthing on the trees, or on the herbs of the field throughout all theland of Egypt. It has been a matter of dispute between learned commentators on the scriptures, whether the animals mentioned by Moses in the miraculous supply of food for the Israelites in the wilderness, were emails or locusts. Our translators render them the former; but, from the description given by the sacred historian, and from what I have observed of locusts, I rather incline to the opinion of Ludolphus, and the late bishop of Clogher, that they were locusts, and not quails, which the children of Israel ate in the desert. Moses says, There went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a days journey on this side, and as it were a days journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth. And the people stood up all that day,
Text Appearing After Image:The curmoor or florican , one of the highest flavoured bird in india.
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