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Sand Martins being drawn oiit of a cliff on the 

 Rhine, in the month of March 1762. And the 

 honourable Mr. Daines Barrington, this year, 

 communicated to us the following fad, on the 

 authority of the late Lord Belhaven, that num- 

 bers of Swallows have been found in old dry 

 walls, and in fand-hills near his lordfhip's feat in 

 Eaft Lothian ; not once only, but from year to 

 year ; and that when they were expofed to the 

 warmth of a fire, they revived. We have alfo 

 heard of the fame annual difcoveries near Mor- 

 peth in Northumberland, but cannot fpeak of 

 them with the fame affurance as the two former : 

 neither in the two lail inftances are we certain of 

 the particular fpecies, 



" The above are circumftances we cannot but 

 aiTent to, though feemingly contradiélory to the 

 common courfe of nature in regard to other 

 birds. V/ e mud, therefore, divide our belief re- 

 lating to thefe twofo different opinions, and con- 

 clude, that one part of the Swallow tribe mi- 

 grate, and that others have their winter quarters 

 near home. If it fhould be demanded, why Swal- 

 lows alone are found in a torpid ft ate, and not 



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