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ence; and fo difpofe, or we may fay, neceffi- 
tate, this tribe of birds, or part of them, at left, 
to a repofe more lafting than that of any others. 
The third notion is, even at firft fight, too a- 
mazing and unnatural to merit mention, if it was 
not that fome of the learned have been credulous 
enough to deliver, for faét, what has the ftrongeft 
- appearance of impoffibility; we mean the relation 
of fwallows paffing the winter immerfed under ice, 
at the bottom of lakes, or lodged beneath the water 
of the fea at the foot of rocks. The firft who 
broached this opinion, was Olaus Magnus, Arch- 
bifhop of Upjal, who very gravely informs us, that 
thefe birds are often found in cluftered maffes at 
the bottom. of the northern lakes, mouth to 
mouth, wing to wing, foot to foot; and that they 
creep down the reeds in autumn, to their fubaque- 
ous retreats, That when old fifhermen difcover 
fuch a mafs, they throw it into the water again; 
but when young inexperienced ones take it, they 
will, by thawing the birds at a fire, bring them in- 
deed to the ufe of their wings, which will conti- 
nue but a very fhort time, being owing to a pre- 
- mature and forced revival *. 
That the good Archbifhop did not want credu- 
lity, in other inftances, appears from this, that after 
having ftocked the bottoms of the lakes with. 
birds, he ftores the clouds with mice, which fome- 
* Derham’s Phyf. Theol, note 4. p. 349. Pontop. hift. Norw 
I. 99. ; 
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