2 5 2 SWALLOW S. Clafs If. 



by thawing the birds at a fire, bring them indeed to 

 the ufe of their wings, which will continue but a 

 very fhort time, being owing to a premature and 

 forced revival *. 



That the good archbifhop did not want credulity* 

 in other inftances, appears from this, that after 

 having {locked the bottoms of the lakes with birds, 

 heft ores the clouds with mice, which fometimes fall 

 in plentiful fhowers on Norway and the neighboring 

 countries -}\ 



Some of our own countrymen have given credit 

 to the fubmerfion of fwallows J •, and Klein patronifes 

 the doclrine ftrongly, giving the following hiftory of 

 their manner of retiring, which he received from 

 fome countrymen and others. They afferted, that 

 fometimes the fwallows afTembled in numbers on a 

 a reed, till it broke and funk with them to the bot- 

 tom % and their immerfion was, preluded by a dirge 

 of a quarter of an hour's length. That others would 

 unite in laying hold of a ftraw with their bills, and fo 

 plunge down in fociety. Others again would form 

 a large mafs, by clinging together with their feet, and 

 fo commit themfelves to the deep ||. 



Such are the relations given by thofe that are fond 

 of this opinion, and though delivered without exag- 



* Derhams Phxf. Tfcol. note d. p. 345. Pontcp. hiji. Noriv. 

 i. 99. 



•f Gefner Icon. Ail IOO. 



J Derhams Ph\f. Theol. 340. 349. Hildrop's trails, ii. 32. 



|| Klein biji. &v. 205. 206. Bkmorch migr. av. Am<en. aead, 

 iv. 589. 



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