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without doubt, during his fail, circulates thro* 

 his veflels, and fupplies the place of food -, to 

 which perhaps is added that fat juice which 

 he fucks out of the bottom of his feet. 



The hedge-hog^ badger and mole in the 

 fame manner fill their winter quarters wi:h ve- 

 getables, and fleep during the frofts. 



The hat feems cold, and quite dead all 

 the winter. Mofl of the amphibious animals get 

 into dens , or to the bottom of lakes and pools, 



In the autumn, as the cold approaches, and 

 infedls difappear, fw allows •'' feek for an afylum 

 againil the violence of the cold in the bottom 



of 



^ I never had but one credible tefiimony that fwallows 

 pafs the winter at the bottom of lakes or ponds ; and this 

 from a gentleman of charader, who faw a fwallow fo found 

 brought to life by v/armth. On the other hand,"i know of 

 no author but Plerodotus who mentions their being feen in 

 any countrty during the winter. He lib. 2. p. 109. edit. 

 Steph.fays, that fwallows and kites continue all the year about 

 the rprings of the Nile. Vv hat he mentics concerning kites 

 deferves fome notice, viz. that they lye concealed in holes a few 

 days. Pliny fays a few months. Gefner repeats the fame, add- 

 ing that they have bsen found in hollow trees fomewhere in 

 Upper Germany, but he fesms to relate this upon hearfay 

 only. Aidrovandus gives the fame account as Gefner, and 

 adds that they winter in ^gypt, but whether upon the au- 

 thorit)' of Eellonius or any other credible writer, does no? 



appear. 



