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he, turning towards the fea, you may fee the rea- 

 fon, the wind is off fea -, for this is the feafon of 

 the year when the Swallows, their food failing 

 here, begin to leave us, and return to the coun- 

 try, wherever it be, from whence I fuppofe they 

 came -, and this being the neareft land to the op- 

 pofite coaft, and the wind contrary, they arc 

 waiting for a gal«, and may be faid to be wind 

 bound. 



This was more evident to me, when in the 

 morning I found the wind had come about to the 

 north- weft in the night, and there was not one 

 Swallow to be feen. 



" Certain it is, that the Swallows neither come 

 hither merely for warm weather, nor retire mere- 

 ly from cold ; they, like the fhoals of fifh in the 

 fea, purfue their prey ; they are voracious crea- 

 tures, and feed flying; for their food is the in- 

 fers, of which, in our fummer evenings, in damp 

 and moift places, the air is full. They come hi- 

 ther in the fummer, becaufe our air is fuller of 

 fogs and damps than in other countries ; and for 

 that reafon breeds great quantities of infefts. If 



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