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in his hand for a few minutes, the bird' became ftrong enough to 

 fly two or three yards- 



Kyrcher fpeaks of a deep cavern high up the Teverone, which 

 the mountaineers told him was never left by the fwallows in 

 winter l . 



The Rev. Dr. Bofworth obferved five fwallows (or martin?)' 

 creep out of the wall of Merton College, Oxford, during the 

 month of January, which returned again to their dormitories on 

 the weather becoming colder. 



Mr. Hooper, F. R. S. hath informed me, that martins were 

 feen at Chriftchurch in Hampfhire folate as Chriftmas, in 1772, 

 when the flie& alfo began to be troublefome. I mail here fubjoin 

 the words of a letter on this fubject from an eye-witnefs,, " As my 

 " neighbours and felf were minding in the churchyard \ we told 

 " fourteen on the wing at one time, near the Eaft end of the 

 " church, and could fee others flying about over my houfe, and 

 " different parts of the town." Mr. Rickman went home, and im- 

 mediately wrote the following memorandum in his almanack : 

 ii Dec. 9, 1772. This day a considerable number of martins or 

 " fwallows were feen round the church. They were in indefinite 

 " numbers (as during the fummer), and flew with as much ve- 

 " locity as at that time of the year. They decreafed daily till 

 " the 23d of December, after which I have not heard of one being 

 " feen." 



I have alfo received an account of two fwallows or martins ap- 

 pearing on the 2 1 ft of December, in this fame year, viz. 1772, 

 at or near the town of Pool, in Dorfetfhire. 



I am laflly informed, by an intelligent fervant of the Right 

 Hon. Mr. Mackenzie, that being with his matter at Lord Strafford's 



I Latium Vetus. 



II Sc. of Chriftchurch. 



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