Show ancient writers depict terror spread by fly one old writer tells us its that cattle are struck with will such terror tit fit the approach of these insects flips flies that they forsake tile the pastures anil and run furious in every direction until exhaust ell e by fatigue they sink d down wn and expire iven hven the elephant and rhinoceros though th the cover their thick hides a 8 coating of mud are unable to protect themselves from these tron persecutors their attacks are not confined to tile the brute creation end and when they sting a n human being violent tumors arp are produced and ev ery cry part of the body becomes as it if infected with leprosy when to this graphic description of tb the terrors excited by the advent of such flies are added the further well known facts that in tile the east R snap wine ranke their way into the nose eurs ears and eyes to breed others liters bore into and deposit their eggs in the flesh where maggots are produced produce il frequent causes of very painful anil and often dan clan cerous ulcers we can readily under stand the awfulness of the plague pla e whereby almighty god would drive pharaoh field and the r to io 10 his will before ile he should be compelled to inflict greater upon them exchange |