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pax or snipe tribe, in like manner, search 

 for worms and larvae, — flying from those 

 countries where either frost or dryness pre- 

 vents them from boring, — making generally 

 small flights at a time, and resting on their 

 travels where they find food. And a jour- 

 ney from England to Africa, is no more for 

 an animal that can fly, with the wind, one 

 hundred miles in an hour, than a journey 

 for a Londoner to his seat in a distant pro- 

 vince. And the migrations of smaller fishes 

 or birds always occasions the migration of 

 larger ones, that prey on them. Thus, the 

 seal follows the salmon, in summer, to the 

 mouths of rivers ; the hake follows the her- 

 ring and pilchard ; hawks are seen in great 

 quantities, in the month of May, coming into 

 the east of Europe, after quails and land- 

 rails ; and locusts are followed by numerous 

 birds, that, fortunately for the agriculturist, 

 make them their prey. 



Hal. — It is not possible to follow the 

 amusement of angling, without often having 

 your attention directed to the modes of life 

 of fishes, insects, and birds, and many cu- 



