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blocked spiry mountains, streaked with white, bound the sides, and rise, crag above crag, as r as the eye
can reach in the back ground.
LESSON XI.
THE LOCUST.
RAv'AGES, n., pillages. F. ravages, om ravir, om r ere, L., to seize upon; and this om A.S. rea an, to reave, to tear away.
PRoVER1BIAL, a., notorious. F. proverbial, mentioned in a proverb,­ om verbum, L., a word.
PRoPHET1IC, a., predictive. L. propheticus, from phemi, G., I speak. V1s1TA1TION, n., the act of visiting. F. visitation, from video, L., I
see.
lNEV'ITABLE, a., unavoidable. F. inevitable, om evito, L.-e and vito, I shun.
LA 1ENTABLE, a., deplorable. F. lamentable, from lamentor, L., I bewail.
VEGETA1TION, n., growth without sensation. F. vegetation, om vegeo, L., I quicken.
OnLIT1ERATE, v., to e ace. I. and L. obliterare, to blot out, om litera, L., a letter.
INNox'10us, a., ee om mischievous e ects. L. in-noxius, om no­ ceo, I hurt.
UNPAL1ATABLE, a., nauseous,-from palatum, L., the palate or roof of the mouth,-the taste.
(For signi cation of ob, e, in, un, -able, &c., seep. 401-3.)
1. THE locust is that destructive insect whose rav­ ages are proverbial-whose approach, om the in­ numerable myriads that compose their squadrons, is announced in prophetic language as a day of dark­ ness and gloominess-a day of clouds and of thick darkness ; and whose desolating march is thus de­ scribed: "The land is as the garden of Eden be re them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them." The visitation of a few minutes destroys the husbandman's hope of the
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