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THE SWAN. 



The Swan. 



The SWAN. Exclusive of ornament, the chief use 

 of the swan is to clear pieces of water from weeds, a 

 service which was effected some years since by swans, 

 over a considerable breadth of water, at Clumber, the 

 residence of the Duke of Newcastle, in the course of 

 a year or two ; but they are generally reputed great 

 destroyers of the young fry of fish. 



It is to the Marquis of Exeter, that the public are 

 indebted for the singular discovery, that swans pre- 

 serve ponds free from weeds. There is a sheet of 

 water at Burghley, about a mile in length, which used 

 to loe so overrun with weeds, that three men were 

 constantly employed six months in every year to keep 



