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and their teeth are fit to chew more folid food. 

 Nay their love toward them is fo great, that 

 they endeavour to repell with the utmoll force 

 every thing, which threatens danger, or de- 

 ftrudtion to them. The ewe which brings forth 

 two lambs at a time, will not admit one to her 

 teats, unlefs the other be prefent, and fuck 

 alio •, left one ihould familh, while the other 

 grows fat. 



Birds build their nefts in the moft artificial 

 manner, and line them as foft as poflible, for 

 fear the eggs Ihould get any damage. Nor do 

 they build promifcuoufly in any place -, but 

 there only, where they may quietly lye con- 

 cealed and be fafe from the attacks of their 

 enemies. 



The hajtging bird^ A6t, Bonon. vol. 2, 

 makes its neft of the fibres of withered plants, 

 and the down of the poplar feeds, and fixes it 

 upon the bough of fome tree hanging over the 

 watery that it may be out of reach. 



Tlitdiver^ Fn. 123. places its fwimming neft 

 upon the water itfelf amongft the rufties. I de- 

 fignedly pafs over many other inftances of the 

 like kind. 



Again birds fit on their eggs with fo much 

 patience, that many of them choofe to perifti 



with 



