.cliff which remained in the rock, they could at firft fcarcely per- 

 ceive life in them, but foon they began to crawl a little, then 

 they carried fome into the houfe, and held them near the fire, 

 when they became pretty lively. Richard Hugh cannot recollect 

 who was the perfon that faw them befide himfelf and Mr. Anwil, 

 neither can he remember exactly what month it was ; but he is 

 Teady to make oath, that it was a very uncommon time of year 

 to fee fwallows, and to the belt of his memory it was either the 

 latter end of January or the beginning of February. I went to 

 Mr. Griffith Evans at Tymaur, to afk whether he had heard any 

 thing of them ; and he told me, that he now well remembers to 

 have heard Mr. Anwill telling a deal about them, hew remark- 

 able it was to fee them at fuch time of the year, and he believes 

 it was about twenty years ago ; and Mr. Griffith Evans fays he is 

 pofitive that it is true. Alio one Hugh Richard, a very credible 

 old man in this town, fays, that he really heard Mr. Anwil 

 mentioning; them/' 



I have another account of the fame fort with regard to fwal- 

 lows (or martins) being difcovered, about 16 years ago, at Yew- 

 Law Caftle, near Ha warden, in Flintfhire. 



I have received alfo the fame kind of information relative to 

 torpid fwallows, in Carnarvonfhire^ and Caftleton in Derby- 

 shire. 



Sir William tellers told the late Dr. Chauncey that he happened 

 to ftop at a Fimermans houfe in Cornwall, whofe net had been 

 much torn by a large clod of earth, which, upon being examin- 

 ed, was very full of fwallows, that awaked from their torpidity 

 upon being brought near the fire. I mould rather fuppofe how- 

 ever that they were martins, from the circumftance of their being 

 found in a large clod of earth, which had probably dropt from 

 the bank a little while before. 



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