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several other known birds of passage*: Yea the 

 stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed 

 time; and the turtle, and the crane, and the 

 swallow, observe the time of their coming. 

 Chap. viii. 7. 



The poet Anacreon not only notices the mi- 

 gration of this bird,- but supposes Aegypt to 

 be the place of its destination f. 



* If the reader should doubt whether the Hebrew word 

 which we render swallow, and the translators of the Sep- 

 tuagint ^sXi&wv, originally signified the bird which we now 

 give that name, he may consult Bochart's Hierozoicon, 

 five de Animalibus Sacrac Scripturae. Fol. London, 1663. 

 Vol. ii. p. 59. 



*H NEIAON r ri MEMOIN. 



Carm. 33. 



Barnes, the editor of Anacreon, in a note oiv this passage, 

 says, " Nonnulli putant (hirundines) in scopulis, aut in 

 truncis arborum sopitas latere, tota hyeme, ut Kircherus 

 in mundo subterraneo; Ita Ovid. Cum glaciantur aquae, 

 scopulis se condit hirundo. Alii illas alic^uand^ sub ipsis 



