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of rocks. The firft who broached this opinion 

 was Olaus Magnus, archbifhop of Upfal, who 

 very gravely informs us, that thefe birds are 

 often found in cluftered mafles at the bottom of 

 the northern lakes, mouth to mouth, wing to 

 wing, foot to foot ; and that they creep down 

 the reeds in autumn, to their fubaqueous retreats. 

 That when old fiihermen difcover fuch a mafs, 

 they throw it into the v/ater again ; but when 

 young inexperienced ones take it, they will, by 

 thawing the birds at a fire, bring them indeed 

 to the ufe of their wings, which will continue 

 but a very fliort time, owing to premature and 

 forced revival. 



" That the good archbifhop did not want cre- 

 dulity, in other inftances, appears from this, that 

 after having flocked the bottoms of the lakes 

 with birds, he flores the clouds with mice, whick 

 fometimes fall in plentiful fhowers on Norway, 

 and the neighbouring countries. 



Some of our own countrymen have given 

 credit to the fubmerfion of Swallows ; and Klein 

 patronifes the dodrine flrongly, giving the fol- 

 lowing 



