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fall down, and in a few years to come, it 

 will be as difficult to find the place where 

 it flood, as it was unlikely at the time of 

 its erection, that one of the greatcft towns 

 in America, mould in a fhort time Hand 

 clofc up to it. 



September the 7th. Mr. Peter Cock, a 

 merchant of this town, allured me that he 

 had laft week himfclf been a fpectatcr of a 

 fnake's fwallowing a little bird. This bird, 

 which from its cry has the name of Cat 

 bird, ( Mufcicapa Carolinenjis, Linn.) flew 

 from one branch of a tree to another, and 

 was making a doleful tune. At the bot- 

 tom of the tree, but at a fathom's diiiance 

 from the ilera, lay one of the great black 

 makes, with its head continually .upright, 

 pointing towards the bird, which was al- 

 ways fluttering about, and now and then 

 fettling on the branches. At nrft it only 

 kept in the topmoft branches, but by de- 

 grees it came lower down, and even flew 

 upon the ground, and hopped to the place 

 where the make lay, which immediately 

 opened its mouth, caught the bird and 

 fwallowed it ; but it had fcarce finiihed its 

 repaft before Mr. Cock came up and killed 

 it. I was afterwards told that this kind of 

 fnakes was frequently obferved to purfue 

 little birds in this manner. It is already 



well 



