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But how come they to be dire(fled to the fame 

 Place yearly, tho' fometimes but a little Iiland,as 

 the Soland-Goofe to the Baffe of Edinburgh-Frith^ 

 which they could not poflibly fee, and fo it could 

 have no Influence upon them that way ? The 

 Cold or the Heat might poflibly drive them in a 

 right Line from either 5 but that they fhould im- 

 pel Land-Birds to venture over a wide Ocean, of 

 which they can fee no End, is fl:range and unac- 

 countable 5 one would think that the Sight of fo 

 much Water, and prefent Fear of drowning, 

 fliould overcome the Senfe of Hunger, or Dif- 

 agreeablenefs of the Temper of the Air. Befides, 

 how come they to fleer their Courfe aright to 

 their fcveral Quarters, which before the Com- 

 pafs was invented was hard for a Man himfelf to 

 do, they being not able, as I noted before, to 

 fee them at that diftance? Think we that the 

 ^ails, for inftance, could fee quite crofs the 

 Mediterranean-Sea? and yet it is clear they fly 

 out of Itzily into Jfrick^ lighting many times on. 

 Ships in the midft of the Sea, to reft themfelves 

 whe'n tir'd and fpent with flying. That they 

 (hould thus fliift Places, is very convenient for 

 them, and accordingly we fee they do it y which 

 feems to be impofllble they fliould, unlefs them- 

 felves were endu'd with Reafon, or direded and 

 afted by a fuperior intelligent Caufe. 



The like may be faid of the Migration of di- 

 vers Sorts of Fiflies: As for Example 5 the SaU 

 motiy which from the Sea yearly afcends up a 

 Rivier fometimes 406 or 500 Miles, only to caft 



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