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at the Univerfity, and confirmed it to me fince, 

 viz. That an ancient fifherman, accounted an 

 honeft man, being near fome rocks on the coaft 

 of Cornwal, faw, at a very low ebb, a black lift 

 of fomcthing adhering to the rock, which when 

 he came to examine, he found it was a great 

 number of Sv/allows j and, if I mifremember not, 

 of Swifts alfo, hanging by the feet to one ano- 

 ther, as Bees do ; which were covered commonly 

 by the fea- waters, but revived in his warm hand, 

 and by the fire. All this the fifherman himfelf 

 afîlired the do6lor of. 



The fame ingenious author farther remarks, 

 that it is Mr. Willoughby's opinion, Swallows 

 fly into Egypt, Ethiopia, &c. but Olaus Mag- 

 nus, Etmuller, and fome modern travellers, he 

 fayS;, put this matter quite out of doubt. 



" He then gives the relation of Dr. Colas, as 



follows : 



" We had, at a meeting of the Royal Society 

 Feb. 12, Î712-13, a farther confirmation of 

 Swallows retiring under water in winter from 

 Dr. Colas, a perfon very curious in thefe mat- 

 ters j 



