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the wall in the chimneys, hold themfelves 

 with their feet, and the ftifF tail ferves to 

 keep them up : they make a great thunder- 

 ing noife all the day long, by flying up and 

 down in the chimneys ; and as they build 

 their nefls in chimneys only, and it is 

 well known that the Indians have not fo 

 much as a hearth made of mafonry, much 

 lefs a chimney, but make their fires on the 

 ground in their huts, it is an obvious quef- 

 tion, Where did thefe Swallows build their 

 hefts before the Europeans came, and made 

 houfes with chimneys ? It is probable that 

 they formerly made them in great hollow 

 trees. This opinion was adopted by Mr. 

 Bartram, and many others here. Catejby has 

 defcribed the Chimney Swallow and figured it*, 

 and Dr. Linnceus calls it Hirundo Pelafgia. 



The Ground Swallows or Sand Martins > 

 (Linn<zus\ Hirundo riparia) are to be met 

 with every where in America j they make 

 their nefts in the ground on the fleep mores 

 of rivers and lakes. 



The Purple Martins have likewife been 

 defcribed and drawn in their natural colours 

 by Catejby -f. Dr. Linnaus likewife calls 

 them Hirundo purpurea. They are lefs 

 common here than the former fpecies ; I 

 K 2 have 



* Hirundo, cauda acukata, Americana. Catefb. Carol. voh 

 Hi; t. 8.. 



■f Hirundo put-puna. Nat, Hiit.' of Carol, vol. i. C. 51, 



