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whereas tHey, in reality, are only to be found- on: 

 one fide. 



The mouths of flounders are often turned different 

 ways, which one would think could not well efcape 

 the obfervation of the London fifhmongers ; yet, 

 upon afking feveral of them- whether they had at- 

 tended to this particular, I found they had not, till I 

 lhewe'd them the proof in their own (hops. 



A fishmonger, however, knows immediately 

 whether a fifti is in good eating order or not, on the 

 firfi infpecYion; becaufe this is a circumftance which : 

 interefts him. 



I (hall, however, by no means fapprefs two argu- 

 ments in favour of migration, which feem to require, 

 the fullefl anfwer that can be given to them. 



The firft is, that there are certain birds, which 

 appear during the winter, but dif appear during the 

 fummer j and it may be afked, where fuch birds can 

 be fuppofed to breed, if they do not migrate from 

 this ifland. 



Thefe birds are in number four, viz; the fnipe*- 

 woodcock, redwing, and fieldfare. 



As for the fnipe, I have a very ftiort anfwer to 

 give to the objection, as far as it relates to this bird j 

 becaufe it conftantly breeds in the fens of Lincoln- 

 mire, Wolmar foreft, and Bodmyn downs ; it is 

 therefore highly probable, that it does the fame in 

 aimoft every county of England. 



1 muft own, however, that, till within thefe few years, 

 I conceived the neft of a fnipe was as rarely feen in 

 England, as that of a woodcock or fieldfare ; and 

 that able ornithoiogifr. Mr. Edwards fuppoles this to 



be 



