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" like a fwarm of Bees ; the decks and carving 

 " were filled with them. They feemed almoit 

 " famiflied and fpent, and were only feathers 

 and bones -, but being recruited with a night's 

 " reft, took their flight in the morning." This 

 vail fatigue proves that their journey muft have 

 been very great, confidering the amazing fwift- 

 ncfs of thefe birds ; in all probability they had 

 croiied the Atlantic ocean, and were returning 

 from the iliores of Senegal, or other parts of 

 Africa-, fo that this account, from that moft able 

 and honeft feaman, confirms the later information 

 of M. Adanfon. 



" The fécond notion has great antiquity on its 

 fide. Ariftotle and Pliny give as their belief, 

 that Swallows do not remove very far from their 

 fummer habitation, but winter in the hollows of 

 rocks, and during that time lofe their feathers. 

 The former part of their opinion has been adopt- 

 ed by feveral ingenious men ; and of late feve- 

 ral proofs having been brought, at leafi:, of fome 

 fpecies having been difcovered in a torpid {late. 

 Mr. Collinfon favoured us with the evidence of 

 three gentlemen, eye-witnefles to numbers of 



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