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luftre, but whofe grains are eaten by this bird, and 

 re-fown wherever (lie takes her flight. 



To thofe correfpondences muft be joined fuch 

 as pertain to fite, which itfelf derives fo much 

 beauty from the overfhadowing vegetable. Thefe 

 harmonies are detailed by Father Francis d' Abbe- 

 ville. If credit is to be given to the Hiftory of 

 Voyages by the Abbé Prevoji, there is, on the 

 banks of the Senegal, a fluviatic tree, the leaves of 

 which are thorny, and the branches pendant, in 

 form of an arch. It ferves as a habitation to birds 

 called kurbalos, or fifhers, of the fize of a fparrow, 

 variously coloured. Their bill is very long, and 

 armed with little teeth, refembling a faw. They 

 build a neft of the bulk of a pear, compofed of 

 earth, feathers, fhraw, mofs, and attach it to a long 

 thread, fufpended from the extremity of the 

 branches which project over the river, in order to 

 fecure it from the ferpents and monkeys, which 

 fometimes contrive to clamber up after them. You 

 would take thofe nefts, at a little diftance, for the 

 fruit of the tree : and fome of thofe trees contain 

 to the number of a thoufand. You perceive the 

 kurbalos fluttering inceffantly along the water, 

 and entering into their nefts with a motion that 

 dazzles the eyes. 



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