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ledge, we were surprised to see three house- 

 swallows gliding very swiftly by us. That 

 morning was rather chilly, with the wind 

 at north- Avest ; but the tenor of the weather 

 for some time before had been delicate, and 

 the noons remarkably warm. From this 

 incident, and from repeated accounts which 

 I meet with, I am more and more induced 

 to believe that many of the swallow kind 

 do not depart from this island ; but lay 

 themselves up in holes and caverns ; and 

 do, insect-like and bat-like, come forth at 

 mild times, and then retire again to their 

 latehrcE. Nor make I the least doubt but 

 that, if I lived at NewhaveUf Seaford, 

 Brighthelmstone, or any of those towns near 

 the chalk-clifFs of the Sussex coast, by 

 proper observations, I should see swallows 

 stirring at periods of the Winter, when the 

 noons were soft and inviting, and the sun 

 warm and invigorating. And I am the 

 more of this opinion from what I have 

 remarked during some of our late Springs, 

 that though some swallows did make their 

 appearance about the usual time, viz. the 



