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Moccha, in the Bhar Yemeni. I defire the Sultan will allow* 

 me to proceed thither ; and, if it be neceflary, grant me his 

 proteftion, and three or four perfons, deferving confidence, 

 to attend me to the frontiers of Kordofan. I have a fmall 

 prefent to offer him, confiding of fuch things as my circum- 

 fcances permitted me to bring. I hope he may not rcfufe to 

 receive it, and to grant me the favour I afk." — He anfvvered : 

 *' Merchant, you are welcome to the T>ar. The king is kind 

 to ftrangers, and he will favour you in all you wifli. What- 

 ever you want, you have only to demand. He has ordered 

 a fack of wheat and four {lieep to be fent you. At this time 

 it is not poffible to pafs through Kordofan : the Sultan has 

 a great army there; and when the country fliall be in fub- 

 jeftion to him, you may pafs unmolefted. When you are 

 admitted to his prefcnce, you will tell him who has robbed 

 you, and what you have loft ; and he will caufe it to be 

 reftored." It was now the hour of prayer, and, when the 

 company commenced their ablutions, Mr. Brown retired. 

 [To be continued.] 



XV^IT. On the Difappearance of Swallows in Autumn ; in 

 a Letter from Mr, Peter Cole to Dr. Mitchill, 

 dated Nezu-York, September 2^, 1798 *. 



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N confcquence of the epidemic now raging in this devoted 

 city, I have not had an opportunity to give you a detail of 

 what I intimated to you fome time ago relative to the dif- 

 appearance of fwallows. 



In my early years, a number of my fchool-companions 

 and myfelf ufed to make it a praftice to hunt what we 

 termed Ground-Swallows [hirundo riparia), in a bank in 

 the neighbourhood of this city, contiguous to where the 

 Jews burial-ground then was. In one of thefe boyifli 

 amufements I recollect two gentlemen palled nearly by us, 



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