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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 J 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 would unite 



* Derham's Phys. Theol. note d. p. 34Q. Pontop. hist. 

 Norm. 1. QQ. 



f Gesner Icon. An. 100. 



% Derha?n'$ Phys. Theol. 340. 340.- Hildrotfs Tracts, ii. 

 32. 



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