STUDY I. Ill 



up, in the forefls, the grains of fpicery which they 

 brufh off as they hop from branch to branch. 

 While fowls of this defcription preferve an equal 

 temperature, under the fame Parallels, others find 

 it in the track of the fame Meridian. Long 

 triangles of wild-geefe and of fwans go and come 

 every year from South to North, flop only at the 

 hoary limits of Winter, hurry, without defire, or 

 aflonifliment, over the populous cities of Europe, 

 and look down with difdain on their fertile plains, 

 prefenting the furrows of green corn in the midft 

 of fnow : to fuch a degree does liberty appear pre- 

 ferable to abundance, even in the eyes of the ani- 

 mal creation ! 



On the other hand, legions of heavy quails 

 crofs the Sea, and go to the South, in queft of the 

 Summer's heat. Toward the end of September, 

 they avail themfelves of a northerly wind to take 

 their departure from Europe, and flapping one 

 wing, while they prefent the other to the gale, 

 half fail, half oar, they graze the billows of the 

 Mediterranean, with their fattened rump, and bury 

 themfelves in the fands of Africa, to ferve as food 

 to the familhed inhabitants of Zara. 



There are animals which travel only by night. 



. Millions of crabs, in the Antilles, defcend from 



the mountains by the light of the Moon, clartiing 



their 



