Class II. SWALLOWS. , ■ 563 



the water again ; but when young inexperienced 

 ones take it, they will, by thawing the birds at 

 a fire, bring them indeed to the use of their 

 wings, which will continue but a very short time; 

 owing to a premature and forced revival.* 



That the good Archbishop did not want cre- 

 dulity, in other instances, appears from this, 

 that after having stocked the bottoms of the 

 lakes with birds, he stores the clouds with 

 mice, which sometimes fall in plentiful show- 

 ers on Norway and the neighboring coun- 

 tries.'!' ■ ■••' ' — - • • - , 



Some of our own countrymen :|: have given cre- 

 dit to the submersion of swallows ; and Klein 

 patronises the doctrine strongly, giving the fol- 

 lowing history of their manner of retiring, which 

 he received from some countrymen and others* 

 They asserted, that sometimes the swallows 

 assembled in numbers on a reed, till it broke and 

 sunk with them to the bottom ; and that their 

 immersion was preluded by a dirge of a quarter 

 of an hour's length ; that others A^'ould unite 



* Derhams Phys. Theol. note d. p. 349- Pontop. hbt. 

 Norw. I. 99. 



■\ Gesner Icon. An. 100. 



X Derham's Phys. Theol. 340. 349- Hildrop's Tracfs, ii. 

 32. 



