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" (where the canals and ponds, that are annually 

 " left by the Nile, were become dry) and diredt- 

 " ed themfelves towards N. E. It is obferved of 

 " the Storks, that for about the fpace of a fort- 

 " night before they pafs from one country to an- 

 " other, they conftantly refort together, from all 

 " the circumjacent parts, to a certain plain, and 

 " there forming themfelves once every day into 

 " a DoU'Wanne (according to the phrafe of the 

 " people) and are faid to determine the exa6t 

 *' time of their departure, and the places of theif 

 " future abodes. Thofe that frequent the marihes 

 " of Barbary appear about three weeks fooner 



than the flights above-mentioned were obferv- 

 " ed to do, though they likewife are fuppofed to 



come from Egypt, whither alfo they return a 

 " little after the Autumnal Equinox, the Nile 

 " being then retired within its banks, and the 

 " country in a proper difpofition to fupply them 



with nourifliment. No lefs extraordinary are 

 " thofe flights of Pigeons, that have been ob- 

 " ferved in New-England, and other parts of 



America." I think what is faid by Dr. Shaw 

 in the above quotation is fufficient to convince 

 any one, that the Stork is a confiant inhabitant 



of 



