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We have accounts, too, no less remarkable, in reference even to the most contemptible of animals. M. Varro informs us, that a town in Spain was undermined by rabbits, and one in Thessaly, by mice; that the inhabitants of a district in Gaul were driven from their country by frogs, [Note] and a place in Africa by locusts; [Note] that the inhabitants of Gyarus, [Note] one of the Cyclades, were driven away by mice; [Note] and the Amunclæ, in Italy, by serpents. There is a vast desert tract on this side of the Æthiopian Cynamolgi, [Note] the inhabitants of which were exterminated by scorpions and venomous ants. [Note]
and Theophrastus informs us, that the people of Rhœteum [Note] were driven away by scolopendræ. [Note] But we must now return to the other kinds of wild beasts.
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