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ct into the water 5 fet the whole on the fire to 

 boil, and kept ftirrlng the ingredients about 

 lintil they were entirely difToIvcd. He went 

 with this mixture into the dove-cot, and took 

 great pains to lay it on with a painter's brufh 

 both in and outfide the holes. He then got d 

 ladder, and in the fame manner wafhed over 

 the loover, or aperture where the pigeons en- 

 ter, with the fame mixture. In fpite of the 

 afTurances given me by the operator that m^ 

 pigeons would return, and perhaps with addi- 

 tional company, I did not place implicit faith 

 in his predidions, and could not avoid ex- 

 prefllng fome doubts of the attrafting power 

 of his noftrum. But he confented to (top un- 

 til the next day, when the pigeons were to 

 make their appearance; upon the terms, "No 

 pigeons, no pay" About eleven o'clock a fingle 

 pigeon came, and about three the fame day all 

 my emigrants returned. My (lock foon grew 

 numerous, and they never after forfook the 

 cot. A mod extraordinary good one it foon 

 proved, with the afHftance of a colony of llran- 

 gers, who had been enticed to take up their re- 

 fidcnce by the fafcinating accommodations pro- 

 vided by my rat-catcher* 1 could 



