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fromthe Honourable. Samuzt Dexter, a to. the He 
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A with which EN are: convert: it ithol y cannot have 
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nt Lknowit has been a- Id taiant, whether 
scertain fpecies of birds e grat d autumn to. diftant countries, 
and. returncin the fpring; 0 with us during the winter, 
ina torpid ftate ; and that the foriner: opinion has generally 
ree fee When, therefore;: acquaint you that I have adopt- 
latter, ^ with refpeGt:to the houfe-fwallaw, you will juftly 
aiig that I give you fubftantial reafons for differing from. fo 
many who have maintained the contrary. 
The late Judge Fofer, of Brookfield, a year or two before 
‘his death, affured me, that he faw a certain pond drained, about 
the’ feafon of the year when the fwallows firft appear. The 
-bufinefs being effected, and the weather fair and warm, he, 
with feveral othérs, obferveda rippling motion in many parts of 
the emptied hollow ; ‘which, ona near infpe&ion, they found 
to be occafioned by a multitüde of fwallows, endeavouring to 
difengage themfelves from the mud, which was fcarcely cover- 
ed by the fhallow remains of water. 
"T (hall now mention fome other facts, which render it pro- 
‘bable, that this fort of fwallows fink into ponds and rivers, in 
the fall of the year, and lie there, benumbed and motionlefs,. 
ome the return of fpring. | 
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