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were not of the same species as the Sand Martin. The owner of the 

 barn stated, that they were first seen there early in the preceding sea- 

 son, that they then constructed but two nests, in each of which they 

 reared a brood, and retired about the same time that Swallows and 

 Martins usually disappear ; that they had returned that spring in ad- 

 ditional numbers, and about a dozen were then employed in prepar- 

 ing their nests. They had then been seen in no other place in that 

 vicinity. I learn that their numbers are now over fifty, and that they 

 have occupied the same station ever since. 



Early in the summer of 1829, 1 saw a new colony of the same spe- 

 cies of birds at Caldwell, head of Lake George ; they had attached 

 their nests, in great numbers, to the timbers under the roof of an open 

 tavern horse shed; and they did not appear disconcerted by the 

 teamsters, within reach of whose whips they were industriously build- 

 ing and repairing their nests, in a place, which they had occupied 

 exclusively for two successive years.* 



During the late summer, (1S30) I found still another family of 

 these winged emigrants ; they were established under the eaves of a 

 large new barn, in Saratoga, eight miles east from the Springs : they 

 arrived, in small numbers, in the spring of 1828, and occupied both 

 sides of the barn ; they have since increased rapidly, and they were 

 computed, the season past, at some hundreds. 



5. Annals of education and instruction; conducted by William 

 C Woodbridge, assisted by several friends of education, united with 

 the American Journal of Education. — " During a residence of sev- 

 eral years abroad, the editor of the work recently proposed under the 

 above title, had collected many important facts on the subject of edu- 

 cation from personal observation, and from intercourse with some of the 

 - most distinguished educators of Europe, among whom were Pestal- 

 lozzi and Fellenbcrg. At a period, so remarkable for the efforts made 

 to improve our schools, he felt it his duty to present the information 

 he had obtained, to those whose circumstances and talents render 

 them more capable of applying it than himself. He found reason to 

 believe, that no medium of communication would be so efficient for 



* Tlie landlord was tiiiwillinjj; to favor mc with a pair of the buds. 



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