...be known by the face of the country. We may fay of defpo'ts, as the prophet does of the locufts, " The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a dcfolate wildernefs * ". •' •Joelii. 3. CHAP. IX. ON POPULATION. 5 I.TH HE ftrength and profperity...

...the flood, and, as far as it reaches, there is nothing but defclation. A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden tf Eden bifers them -, and behind them a defolate vjilderncfs: yea, and nothing jhall efcape them....

...neither mall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate wildernefs, yea, and nothing mall efcape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance...

...neither mall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate wildernefs, yea, and nothing mall efcape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance...

...wastes away. Fruit is nipped off by the stems which bear it, and falls immediately to the ground. " The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness." When a flight is seen approaching, the farmer attempts to prevent its alighting on his grounds by kindling...

...she laid her young; so should I find thine altars, O Lord of Hosts, my King and my God." JOEL ii. 3. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and...behind them a desolate wilderness} yea, and nothing shalt escape them. This, and much more in the same prophecy, is a won-' derfully exact description...

...resist the flood ; as far as it reaches, there is nothing but desolation. A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the...desolate wilderness: yea, and nothing shall escape them. What are become of so many churches founded by the apostles, so flourishing in their age, and since?...

...vapours travel on the wings of the wind, when the Lord of health and life gives them the commiffion. " The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolatewildernefs; yea, and nothing fhallefcape them." Nor Itkat scodoes the furious florm difplay...

...number, and the uncommon devastation which the locusts should 3 make. A fire devoureth before them ; and behind them a flame burneth : the land . [is]...desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them ; they shall devour every thing BO tuitkly 4 and entirely, (hat one would think afire had done itt...

...referred us to the third verse of the second chapter of Joel, from which the images are translated : * The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a ilesolate wilderness.' Mr. Wrangham now laments the state of degradation to which Hindostán was reduced...