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" like a fwarm of Bees ; the decks and carvinoc 

 " were filled with them. They feemed almoft 

 famiflied and fpent, and were only feathers 

 *• and bones -, but being recruited with a night's 

 " reft, took their flight in the morning." This 

 vaft fatigue proves that their journey mull have 

 been very great, confidering the amazing fwift- 

 nefs of thefe birds : in all probability they had 

 crofTed the Atlantic ocean, and v/ere returning 

 from the fhores of Senegal, or other, parts of 

 Africa -3 fo that this account, from that moft able 

 and honeft feaman, confirms the later information 

 of M. Adanfon. 



" The fécond notion has great antiquity on its 

 fide. Ariftotle and Pliny give as their belief, 

 that Swallov/s do not remove very far from their 

 fummer habitation, but winter in the hollov/s of 

 rocks, and during that time lofe their feathers. 

 The former part of their opinion has been adopt- 

 ed by feveral ingenious men ^ and of late feve- 

 ral proofs having been brought, at leaft, of fome 

 fpecies having been difcovered in a torpid ftate. 

 Mr. Collinfon favoured us v^rith the evidence of 

 three gentlemen, eye-witnefTes to numbers of 



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