Class II. SWALLOWS. 41S 



ence-, and fo difpofe, or we may fay, neceffi- 

 tatc, this tribe of birds, or part of them, at left, 

 to a repofe more lafting than that of any others. 



The third notion is, even at firft fight, too a- 

 mazing and unnatural to merit mention, if it was 

 not that fome of the learned have been credulous 

 enough to deliver, for fad, what has the ftrongeft 

 appearance of impoffibility •, we mean the relation 

 of fwallovvs pafllng the winter immerfed under ice, 

 at the bottom of lakes, or lodged beneath the water 

 of the fea at the foot of rocks. The firft who 

 broached this opinion, was Olaiis Magnus^ Arch- 

 biihop of Upjak who very gravely informs us, that 

 thefe birds are often found in cluftered mafies at 

 the bottom of the northern lakes, mouth to 

 mouth, wing to wing, foot to footj and that they 

 creep down the reeds in autumn, to their fubaque- 

 ous retreats. That when old fiftiermen difcover 

 fuch a mafs, they throw it into the water again -, 

 but when young inexperienced ones take it, they 

 will, by thawing the birds at a fire, bring them in- 

 deed to the ufe of their wings, which will conti- 

 nue but a very fhort time, being owing to a pre- 

 mature and forced revival *. 



That the good Archbiftiop did not want credu- 

 lity, in other inftances, appears from this, that after 

 having ftocked the bottoms of the lakes with 

 birds, he ftores the clouds with mice, which fome- 



* DerhanCs Phyf, TheoL note (i. p. 349. Pontop, hifi. Nor-iv, 

 I. 99, 



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