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the air be hot and dry, the gnats die of them- 

 fclves, and even the Swallows will be found fa- 

 mifhed for want, and fall down dead out of the 

 air, their food being taken from them. In like 

 manner, when cold weather comes in, the infe6ls 

 all die ; and then of neceffity the Swallows quit 

 lis, and follow their food wherever they go. This 

 they do in the manner Î have mentioned above -, 

 for fometimes they are feen to go off in vafl 

 jflights like a cloud ^ and fometimes again, when 

 the w^inds grow fair, they go away a few and a 

 few, as they come, not Haying at all upon the 

 coaft. 



This paffîng and repafling of the Swaîlows. 

 is obferved noAvhere fo much, that I luve heard 

 of, as on this eaftern coaft ; namely, from above 

 Harv/ich to the eafl point of Norfolk, called 

 Winterton-Nefs, north -, v/hich is all right againfl 

 Holland. We know nothing of them any far- 

 ther north, the pafîage of the fea being, as I fup- 

 pofe, too broad from Flamborough Head, and the 

 fhore of Holdernefs in Yorkfliire, &c," 



