Nw Jerfey, Raccoon. j^ 



build too under the cenns^ oF^perpendi- 

 cular rocks ; and this fhews where the 



Swallows 



W were take, up, by him, in a net, under the ice, and 

 being brought into a warm room, they flew about. 6thh 

 Jacob Kofiulo, a mailer fifherman, at Stradauen, made affi- 

 davit, that in 1736, he brought up in winter, in a net, 

 from under the ice of the lake at Rajki, a feemingly dead 

 Swallow, which revived in half an hour's time, in a warm 

 room, and he faw, a quarter of an hour after, the bird 

 grow weaker, and foon after dying. V hly, I can reckon 

 mylelf among the eye-witneffes of this paradox* of natu- 



ievaHSwaUowi brought in winter by filhermen, from the 

 nver Vtjlula^ to my father's houfe, where two of them 

 were brought into a warm room, revived, ' and flew about. 

 \tV T t,m L CS fettlin g°" the warm IW, (which- 



wenXit e 2 n T° m r ha - Vem theirrooms ) ^d I recoiled* 



I L /' d • , f ° re i n00a thCy di6d ' 2nd ' had them > 



wnen dead, in my hand. 



In the year .754, after the death of my uncle Godefroy 

 Wolf captain it .the /V^ regiment of foot guards ; being 

 myfelf one of his heirs, I adminiftered for my co-heirs- 



P«^a, which my late uncle farmed under the king. In 

 IZTL i^^ ? f W", belonging to thefe eftates, 

 threln Z°* WUh IC r' * ° rdered the Mermen to fifl, 

 which VrJ" my Pre ? nCe feVeral ^^ vvere taken ; 

 which tne fiffiermen threw in again ; but one I took up 

 myfelf, brought it home, which was five miles from thence 

 and lt revJved , but died abQut an houf * ^"« 



The.e are faS S attefted by people of the highfcft qu 2 



io y v ™TL in h publ,coffic J es ' and bv other5 ' w *°- *& o?i 



impoffible to fuppofe indifenminately [hat they were 

 prompted by views of mtereft, to affert as a fact a thin- 

 vvh.ch had no truth in it. It is therefore hi.h y probabi^ 

 gr.therinconteft.bly true, that Swallows relir/in h X 

 Wcountnes during winter, into the water and ftaJ 

 there in a torpid ftate, till the return of warmth evives 



them 



