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SW: ASLIL‘O, Wes.  Gaaae 
having been difcovered in a torpid ftate. Mr. 
Collinjon* favored us with the evidence of three 
eentlemen, eye-witneffes to numbers of fend mar- 
tins being drawn out of a cliff on the Rhine, in 
the month of March 1762 +. Andthe Honorable. 
Daines Barrington communicated to us the follow- 
ing faét, on the authority of the late Lord Belhaven, 
that numbers of {fwallows have been found in old 
dry walls, and in fandhills near his Lordfhip’s feat 
in Laff Lothian; not once only, but from: year to 
year; and that when they were expofed to the 
warmth of a fire, they revived. We have alfo 
heard of the fame annual difcoveries near Morpeth 
in Northumberland, but cannot fpeak of them with 
the fame affurance as the two former: neither in 
the two laft inftances are we certain of the par- 
ticular {pecies f. 
Other witnefies crowd on us to prove the refi- 
dence of thofe birds in a torpid ftate during the fe- 
vere feafon. 
Firft, In the chalky cliffs of Suffex ; as was feen 
on the fall of a great fragment fome years ago. 
Secondly, In a decayed hollow tree that was 
cut down, near Dolgelli, in Merionethfhire. 
Thirdly, Ina cliff near Whitby, York/hire; where, 
* By letter, dated une 14, 1764. 
+ Phil. Tranf. Vol. LIII. p. 101. art. 24. 
t Kleiz gives an inftance of /wifts being found in a torpid 
itate, Hiff. av. 204. 
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