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their Spawn, and fecure it in Banks of Sand, for 

 the Prefervation of it till the Young be hatched 

 or excluded, and then return to Sea again. How 

 thefe Creatures when they have been wandring a 

 long time in the wide Ocean, fhould again find 

 out and repair to the Mouths of the fame Rivers, 

 feems to me very ftrange, and hardly accountable, 

 without recourfe to Inftinft and the Diredlion of 

 a fuperior Caufe. That Birds, feeing they have 

 no Teeth for the Maftication and Preparation of 

 their Food, {hould for the more convenient 

 Comminution of it in their Stomachs or Giz- 

 zards, fwallow down little Pebble-ftones , or 

 other hard Bodies ; and becaufe all are not fit or 

 proper for that Ufe, (hould firft try them in their 

 Bills, to feel whether they be rough or angular, 

 for their Turns, which if they find them not to 

 be, they rejefl: them ; when thefe by the work- 

 ing of the Stomach are worn fmooth, or too 

 fmall for their Ufe, they avoid them by Siege, 

 and pick up others; that thefe are of great Uie 

 to them for the grinding of their Meat, thei;e is 

 no doubt: And I have obferv'd in Birds that 

 have been kept up in Houfes, where they could 

 get no Pebbles, the very Yolks of their Eggs 

 have changed Colour, and become a great deal 

 paler than theirs who have their liberty to go 

 abroad. 



Befides, I have obferv'd in many Birds, the 



Gullet, before its entrance into the Gizzard, tO 



be much dilated, and thick fet, or as it were 



granulated, with a multitude of Glandules, each 



I w^hereof 



