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De Ovalle obferves, that the Swaliows come 

 into Chili in the fummer, and go away againft 

 the winter into warmer climates, as they do with 

 us in Europe. 



" The following account may be found in the 

 Tour through Great Britain -, where, Ipeaking of 

 the towns of Southwould, Ipfwich, and fome 

 others in the eaftern parts of the kingdom, the au- 

 thor has the following remarks : " At this town 

 in particular, and fo at all the towns on this- 

 coaft, from Orford-Nefs to Yarmouth, is the or- 

 dinary place where our fummer friends, the Swal- » 

 lows, firfl land w^hen they come to vifit us -, and 

 here they may be faid to begin their flight, when 

 they go back into warmer climates. I was fome 

 years before at this place, about the beginning of 

 Odober; and lodging in a houfe that looked in- 

 to the church-yard, I obferved in the evening an 

 unufual multitude of Swallows fitting on the 

 leads of the church, and covering the tops of 

 feveral houfes round about : this led me to in- 

 quire of a grave gentleman, whom I fawnear me, 

 what the meaning was of fuch a prodigious mul- 

 titude of Swallows fitting there -, O, Sir, fays 



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