 | Nathaniel Morton - 1669 - 515 pages
...sickness, 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...woods ring of them, and ready to deafen the hearers ; they were not any of them heard or seen by the English in the country before this time ; but the... | |
 | James Wallis Eastburn, Robert Charles Sands - 1820 - 339 pages
...sickness, there was a numerous company of flies, which were like for bigness unto wasps' bumble-bees ; they came out of little holes in the ground, and did...woods ring of them, and ready to deafen the hearers ; the Indians said that sickness would follow, and so it did very hot in the months of June, July and... | |
 | Nathaniel Morton - 1826 - 481 pages
...out of little holes in the ground, and did eat up the green things, and made such a constant jelling noise as made the woods ring of them, and. ready to deafen the hearers; they were not any of them heard or seen by the Eiiglish in the country before this time; but the Indians... | |
 | James Thacher - 1832 - 382 pages
...(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...yelling noise as made the woods ring of them, and to deafen the hearers. They were not heard nor seen by the English in the country before this time,... | |
 | Robert Charles Sands - 1834
...sickness there was a numerous company of flies, which were like for bigness unto wasps' bumble' bees ; they came out of little holes in the ground, and did...woods ring of them, and ready to deafen the hearers ; the Indians said that sickness would follow, and so it did very hot in the months of June, July,... | |
 | James Thacher - 1835 - 401 pages
...(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...yelling noise as made the woods ring of them, and to deafen the hearers. They were not heard nor seen by the English in the country before this time,... | |
 | Thaddeus William Harris - 1841 - 459 pages
...period of seventeen years. This insect has been observed in the southeastern parts of Massachusetts, but does not seem to have extended to other parts...appeared in Plymouth, Sandwich, and Falmouth in the year 1S04 ; but, if the exact period of seventeen years was observed, they should have returned in 1803.... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1841
...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...yelling noise as made the woods ring of them, and to deafen the hearers. They were not heard nor seen by the English in the country before this time... | |
 | Charles De Wolf Brownell - 1853 - 640 pages
...sickness, there was a numerous company of flies, which were like, for bigness, unto wasps or bumble-bees ; they came out of little holes in the ground, and did...woods ring of them, and ready to deafen the hearers." The Indians prophesied sickness from this sign. No very serious hostilities occurred between the Plymouth... | |
 | Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture - 1909
...for bigness unto Wasps or Bumble-bees. They come out of little holes in the ground and did eat up all the green things, and made such a constant yelling noise as made all the woods ring of them, and ready to deaf the hearers; they were not any of them heard or seen... | |
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It is to be observed, that the spring before this sickness, 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 such a constant... 
