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build too under the corners of perpendi- 

 cular rocks -j and this (hews where the 



Swallows 



lows were takes up, by him, in a net, under the ice, and 

 being brought into a warm room, they flew about. 6thly t 

 Jacob Kojiulo, a mailer fifhertnan, at Stradauen, made affi- 

 davit, that in 1736, he brought up in winter, in a net, 

 from under the ice of the lake at Ra/Zi, a feemingly dead 

 Swallow, which revived in half an hour's time, in a warm 

 room, and he f iw, a quarter of ah hour after, the bird 

 grow weaker, and foon after dying, jthly, I can reckon 

 myfelf among the eye-witrieffes cflF this paradoxon of natu- 

 ral hiftory. In the year/1735, being a little boy, I faw 

 feveral Swallows brought in winter by fifhermen, from the 

 river Vijlula, to my father's boufe, where two of them 

 were brought into a warm room, revived, and flew about. 

 I faw them feveral times fettling on the warm ftove, (which 

 the Northern nations have in their rooms) and I recolledl 

 well that the fame forenoon they died, and I had them, 

 when dead, in my hand. 



In the year 1754, after the death of my uncle Godefroy 

 Wolf, captain in the Polijb regiment of foot guards ; being 

 myfelf one of his heirs, I adminiltered for my co-heirs, 

 feveral eftates called the Starojly, of Dirfchau, in Polifh 

 PruJJia, which my late uncle farmed under the king, la 

 January the lake of Lybfiau, belonging to thefe eftates, 

 being covered with ice, I ordered the filhermen to fifh 

 therein, and in my prefence feveral Swallows were taken ; 

 which the fifhermen threw in again ; but one I took up 

 myfelf, brought it hom.% which was five miles from thence, 

 and it revived, but died about an hour after its reviving. 

 Thefe are fa&s, att.-fted by people of the higheft quality, 

 by fome in public offices, and bv others, who, tho' of a 

 low rank, however made thefe affidavits upon oa>h. It is 

 impoffible to fuppofe indifcriminately that they were 

 prompted by views of intereft, to affert as a fad, a thing 

 which had no truth in it. It is therefore highly probable, 

 or rather inconteftably true, that Swallows retire in the Nor- 

 thern countries during winter, into the water, and ftay 

 there in a torpid ftate, till the return of warmth revives 



them 



