CANARY ISLANDS. 1751. 9 i 



upon the flying-fifties as created for their life. 

 Providence has given them longer peroral fins 

 than any other fifh, with which they fly as 

 light and as fwift as a bird ; but are forced to 

 dip into the water, at the diflance of a com- 

 mon gun's (hot. They fometimes fail upon the 

 (hip's deck when flying ; they are then quite 

 unable to help themfelves off again, and die 

 quickly. On the evening we faw a fwallow 

 in our fhip ; but it was fo wet, that it feemed 

 as if it was but jufl out of the water. 



The 31ft of March, 17 40' N. L. 



The fwallow which we faw yefterday, was 

 fo tired to-day, that we could catch it with 

 our hands. It was the Hintndo rujlica, or 

 houfe-fwallow. It is fomewhat extraordi- 

 nary, that it {hould be met with at fo great a 

 diflance from Sweden, and in fo different a 

 climate. I do not pretend to affert, that it 

 came yefterday from the bottom of the fea, as 

 it was taken fo near the Canary iflands b . 



b Our author, with the nonhern naturalifts, takes it for 

 granted, that fwallovvs retreat under-vvater when they dif- 

 appear in autumn ; there is good evidence that many of 

 fhem migrate from Europe to Africa; and it has been fre- 



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