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U the Univerfity, and confirmed it to mc fincc, 

 viz. That an ancient filherman, accounted an 

 honeft man, being near fome rocks on the coaft 

 of Cornwal, faw^ at a very low ebb, a black lift 

 of fomething adhering to the rock, which when 

 he came to examine, he found it was a great 

 number of Swallows -, and, if I mifremember not, 

 of Swifts alfo, hanging by the feet to one ano- 

 ther, as Bees do -, which were covered commonly 

 by the fea- waters, but revived in his warm hand, 

 and by the fire. All this the fiftierman himfeif 

 sfTured the dodlor of. 



. The fame ingenious author farther remarks, 

 that it is Mr. Willoughby's opinion, Swallows 

 fly into Egypt, Ethiopia, &c. but Olaus Mag- 

 nus, Etmuller, and fome modern travellers, he 

 fays, put this matter quite out of doubt. 



"He then gives the relation of Dr. Colas, as 

 follows : 



. " We had, at a meeting of the Royal Society 

 Feb. 12, 1712-13, a farther confirmation of 

 Swallows retiring under water in winter from 

 Dr. Colas, a perfon very .curious in thefe mat- 

 ters ; 



