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neils built on mountains and rocks whofe 

 top projected beyond the bottom j they 



build 



drawn, as is common in Northern countries, under the 

 ice : this bird was brought into a warm room, revived, 

 fluttered about, and foon after died." 



Mr. Klein applied to many Fermiers geveraux of the 

 King of PruJJia's domains, who had great lakes in their 

 diftricls, the fifhery in them being a part of the revenue; 

 in winter the fifhery thereon is the moll confiderable under 

 the ice, with nets fpreading more than 200 or 300 fathoms, 

 and they are often wound by fcrews and engines, on ac- 

 count of their weight. All the people queftioned made 

 affidavits upon oath before the magiftratcs. Firjl, The 

 mother of the Countefs Lebndorf faid, that fhe bad feen a 

 bundle of Swallows brought from the Frijh-Haff' '(a lake 

 communicating with the Baltic at Pillau) which when 

 brought into a moderately warm room, revived and flut- 

 tered~about. Secondly, Count Schlieben gave an inftrument 

 on (tamped paper, importing, that by fifhing on the lake 

 belonging to his eftate of Gcrdauen in winter, he faw feve- 

 ral Swallows caught in the net, one of which he took up 

 with his hand, brought it into a warm room, where it lay 

 about an hour, when it began to ft.fr- and half an hour 

 after it flew about in the room. Thirdly, Fermier general 

 [Amtmun) Witkowjki made affidavit, that in the year 1740, 

 three Swallows were brought up with the net in the greas 

 pond at Didlacken ; in the year 1741, he got two Swal- 

 lows from another part of the pond, and took them home, 

 (they all being caught in his prefence); after an hour's fpace 

 they revived all in a warm room, fluttered about, and died 

 three hours after. 4/^/y, Amtman Borike fays, that having 

 had the eftate Klcjkow in farm, he had feen nine Swal- 

 lows brought up in the net from under the ice, all which 

 he took into a warm room, where he diftinOly obferved 

 how they gradually revived ; but a few hours after they all 

 died. Another time his people got likewife fome Swallows 

 in a net, but he ordered them again to be thrown into the 

 water. yhly, Andrew Rutta, a mafter fimerman, at Olet- 

 Jko, made affidavit, 1747, that 22 years ago, twb Swat- 



