| Nathaniel Morton - 1669 - 562 pagine
...swept away also many of the Indians from places near adjoining to Plimouth. It is to be observed, that the spring before this sickness, there was a numerous...of flies, which were like for bigness unto wasps or bumblebees ; they came out of little holes in the ground, and did eat up the green things, and made... | |
| 1804 - 452 pagine
...Indians, in and near to Plimouth (Plymouth), in Massachusetts, he says, " It is to be observed, that the Spring before this Sickness, there was a numerous...of Flies, which were like for bigness unto Wasps or BumbleBees, they came out of little holes in the ground, and did eat up the green things, and made... | |
| James Wallis Eastburn, Robert Charles Sands - 1820 - 378 pagine
...a reference to the aulhorhies. Crawled forth the myriad insect host. " It is to be observed,- that the spring before this sickness, there was a numerous...of flies, which were like for bigness unto wasps' bumble-bees ; they came out of little holes in the ground, and did eat up the green things, and made... | |
| Nathaniel Morton - 1826 - 498 pagine
...away also many of the Indians from many places near adjoining to Plimouth. It is to be observed, that the spring before this sickness, there was a numerous company of flies, which people had purchased the land, on which they erected their house. Dr. Trumbull observes, that it is... | |
| James Thacher - 1832 - 460 pagine
...for his moral and Christian virtues. ' The spring before this sickness,' says Morton, (Memorial), ' there was a numerous company of flies, which were like for bigness unto wasps or bumblebees ; they came out of little holes in the ground, and did eat up the green things, and made... | |
| Robert Charles Sands - 1834 - 472 pagine
...authorities. . Crawled forth the myriad insect host. ' • ' '••., " It is to be observed, that the spring before this sickness there was a numerous...of flies, which were like for bigness unto wasps' bumblebees ; they came out of little holes in the ground, and did eat up the green things, and made... | |
| Robert Charles Sands - 1834 - 446 pagine
...reference to the authorities. , Crawled forth the myriad inseet host. 1 • " It is to be observed, that the spring before this sickness there was a numerous...of flies, which were like for bigness unto wasps' bumble' bees ; they came out of little holes in the ground, and did eat up the green things, and made... | |
| James Thacher - 1835 - 426 pagine
...for his moral and Christian virtues. ' The spring before this sickness,' says Morton, (Memorial) ' there was a numerous company of flies, which were like for bigness unto wasps and humble-bees; they came out of little holes in the ground, and did eat up the green things, and... | |
| James Thacher - 1835 - 418 pagine
...Morton, (Memorial) ' there was a numerous company of flies, which were like for bigness unto wasps and humble-bees; they came out of little holes in the ground, and did eat up the green things, and made such a constant yelling noise as made the woods ring of them, and to deafen... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - 1841 - 538 pagine
...what are now thought to have been locusts, but which are thus described by the writers of that day : " The spring before this sickness there was a numerous...company of flies, which were like for bigness unto wasps and humble-bees ; they came out of little holes in the ground, and did eat up the green things, and... | |
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