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of this world, and that it only pafies from one 

 part of its fuperficies to another at certain fea- 

 fons, the better to accommodate itfelf with a 

 temperate climate, and proper food. Thofe 

 that leave Egypt in April, and direél their courfe 

 north- eafi:, are, I fuppofe, what appear in Ger- 

 many, and the Low Countries, all the fummer. 

 A north-eaft diredion from Egypt carries them 

 along the coail of Judea, for its whole length 5 

 from whence it is likely they go diredly north, 

 acrofs Natolia, and pafs by the eaft end of the 

 Black Sea, by which means they have land in 

 view through the courfe of their whole journey j 

 when they have pafied by the Black Sea, the firm 

 lands of Europe and Afia to the north are open 

 before them, fo that they may take their courfe 

 to the places of their deftined habitations* I 

 fuppofe they do not breed in Egypt, fmce Dr. 

 Shaw hath not mentioned it -, but I imagine that 

 all birds of pafTage go northward to breed, and 

 retire fouthward toward winter, that is, of fuch 

 birds as inhabit on this fide the Equino6lial Line^ 

 for, I fuppofe, that what birds of pafTage there 

 are, that continue always to the fouth of the 

 Equino6lial, go toward the fouthern Pole in the 



fummer 



