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tion almost incredible, and to which I know of 



nothing analogous in the whole creation ! 



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DIRECT EVIDENCE TENDING TO ESTABLISH THE 

 ANNUAL SUBMERSION OF SWALLOWS. 



IT may be proper here to advert to the most 

 authentic accounts I have been able to collect of 

 swallows being found in a state of torpidity. I 

 shall then proceed to speak of the proofs of their 

 migration. The reader may compare the evidence 

 on each side of the question. 



The Hon. Daines Barrington communicated to 

 the public an account of some swallows found 

 torpid in old dry walls, and in sand hills near 

 the seat of Lord Belhaven, in East Lothian. 

 Some of these, when warmed by a fire, revived. 

 The particular species of swallows was unfortu- 

 nately not noticed in this, nor in many of the 

 following instances. Near Dolgellau, in North, 

 Wales, were some swallows found jn an old 

 tree. Numbers of swallows were also found in 

 a cliff in Yorkshire, near Whitby, by some 



