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male then went to fit upon the eggs, but 

 after being about two hours on them, and 

 thinking the bufinefs too troublefome for 

 him, he went out, and returned in the after- 

 noon with another female, which fat upon 

 the eggs, and afterwards fed the young 

 ones, till they were able to provide for 

 themfelves. The people differed here in 

 their opinions about the abode of Swallows 

 in winter : m oft of the Swedes thought that 

 they lay at the bottom of the fea ; fome, 

 with the Rnglijh and the French in Canada, 

 thought that they migrate to the fouth- 

 ward in autumn, and return in fpring. I 

 have likewife been credibly informed in 

 Albany, that they have been found fleeping 

 in deep holes and clefts of rocks, during 

 winter, i- 



THE Chimney Swallows are the fecond 

 fpecies, and they derive their name from 

 building their nefls in chimneys, which are 

 not made ufe of in fummer : fometimes 

 when the fire is not very great, they do not 

 mind the fmoke, and remain in the chim- 

 ney. I did not fee them this year till late 

 in May, but in the enfuing year, 1750, they 

 arrived on the 3d of Mcy, for they appear 

 much later than the other Swallows. It 

 is remarkable that each feather in their tail 

 ends in a ftiff fharp point, like the end of 

 an awl ; they apply the tail to the fide, of 



the 





