The Natural Hiftory of the Book TIL. 
up a prodigious Number of thefe Birds late on Saturday Night, and 
alighted on a fmall Spot of Pafture-Land: A neighbouring Contftable pre- 
vented their being difturbed on Sunday, during which time they were ob- 
ferved to be almoft inceflantly treading. 
Their Flight is always from the South-weft towards the Eaft: But 
what feems moft furprifing is, that they direct their Courfe, unvaried, and 
unbyafled either by contrary Winds or Storms, over wide-extended Oceans, 
reaching yearly to their refpeétive Stations, with an Exaétnefs {carce credi- 
ble to an heedlef§ Obferver ; tho’, after the moft diligent Search into the 
anatomical Stru@ture of their Bodies, there can be found no Analogy be- 
tween their feveral Organs, and thofe defigned in the human Species, for 
thofé exalted Ends of Thinking, and providently Reafoning. ; 
Therefore the fublimeft Genius muft, with Humility, own, that we 
know but in Part; and that by fearching we cannot (till God is pleafed 
farther to unveil his now fecret, tho’ always wife Ends) find out the 
Caufes and Effeéts of feveral Phenomena, which future Ages may poffi- 
bly difcover. ' 
Mokt of thefe Birds of Paflage never fail to appear here between the 
Nineteenth and the Twenty-feventh of Auguf, efpecially if it be then 
wet Weather ; but if about that time it is very dry, the greateft Part of 
them are feen to fly very high, and to keep their dire&t Courfe towards 
the Eaft; and, as Milton expreffes it, ; 
----- In Figure wedge their Way, 
Intelligent of Seafons ; and fet forth 
Their airy Caravan, high over Seas 
Flying, and over Lands 5 with mutual Wing 
Eafing their Flight : So fteers the prudent Crane 
Her annual V oyage, borne on Winds : The Air 
Floats as they pafs, fanw d with unnumber'd Plumes. 
The Wiup Woop-PiGEon. 
came is about the Bignefs of an Houfe-Pigeon. 
The Head is of a blackifh Colour ; and, from the under Bill to the 
Breatft, of a light Moufe-colour 5 from thence to the Belly and the under 
Part of the Tail, of an Afh-colour; the upper Side of ae Neck, Back, 
and Wings, of a dark Afh-colour, growing lighter towards the Extremi- 
ties of the Wings. 
“Thefe come hither, tho’ in no great Number, about the latter End of 
Fuly or Auguft, always alighting upon Trees, and feeding upon the Ber- 
ries. of them. 
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