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April, they return from the southwest, in a contrary direction, and go 

 back to the/r summer habitation. These flocks frequently consist of 

 fifty or sixty ; they fly at a great height, and appear to observe great 

 regularity in their passage. They sometimes follow one another in 

 a straight line, but are more generally drawn up in the form of a 

 wedge, and appear to be led by one of th. strongest and most active ; 

 and while they keep together they seem to understand their course 

 perfectly well. 



WILD GOOSE. 



WILD HORSE. In the boundless plains of Tartary and Arabia, 

 wild horses are often seen feeding in droves of fiv$ or six hundred. 

 Whenever they sleep in the forests they have always one among 

 their number that stands as sentinel to give notice of any approach- 

 ing danger ; and this office they take by turns. If a man approaches 

 them while they are feeding by day, their sentinel walks up boldly 

 near him, as if to examine his strength, or to intimidate him from 

 proceeding ; but, if the man approaches within pistol shot, the sentinel 

 then thinks it high time to alarm his followers ; this he does by a loud 

 kind of snorting ; upon which they all tata the signal, arid fly off" 

 with the speed of the wind ; their faithful sentinel bringing up the 

 rear. As they go together, they will not admit any strange animals 

 among them, though even of their own kind. Whenever they find a 

 tame horse attempting to associate with them, they instantly gather 

 round him, and soon oblige him to seek safety by flight. 



WILD PINE. A native plant of Jamaica, which is so contrived 

 by the Author of Nature, as to be of the utmost use to the inhabitants 

 of that hot climate, where there is frequently a scarcity of water. 

 The wild pine is a plant so called, because it somewhat resembles the 

 bush that bears the pine apple. They are commonly supported or 

 grow from some 1 anch, knot, or excrescence of a tree, where they 



