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I believe, hold good in all fm all birds ; fori 

 take it to be manifeft beyond dilpute, that the 

 Swallow-kind leave this ifland in the autumn. 



Having, in page 8 1, mentioned A new general 

 Hiftory of Birds, wherein are colledted feveral 

 opinions on the palTage of birds, I fliall here, 

 and in the following chapter, give an abftraél of 

 them, as that book is but little known. 



" The migration of birds is no lels wonderful 

 than any other particular which has been men- 

 tioned. This is common to various kinds of 

 them, as the Swallow, Quail, Stork, Grane, 

 Fieldfare, Woodcock, Martin, Nightingale, &c. 

 Mr. Derham has produced what is obferved by 

 the prophet, as a remarkable inftance of in- 

 flind, " That the Stork in the heavens knoweth 

 her appointed times, and the Turtle, and the 

 Crane, and the Swallow, obferve the time of 

 their coming." 



" This, fays Mr. Chambers, is a curious article 

 in natural hiftory, and furniflies a notable in- 

 ftance 



