SOO MISCELLANEOUS WONDERS OF NATUB®' 
tl'® (|l4 
from the sea, containing nests similar to those on 
From many of tlieir retreats along the sonthem f 
have been observed to take their flight in an inlan 
towards the pools, lakes, and extensive marshes^ 
with stagnant water, as affording them abundauc jjv. 
food, which consists of flies, mnsquitoes, gnats, 
insects of every description. The sea, rvhich 'j 
foot of the clifls, where they most abound, is ajo’ 
in a state of the most violent agitation, and afto'" 
,11 a ouiii. lilt, iiivoi. .iiJitiii. ,igiiiiiii.ii, <11.^ - 
those substances which have been sup posed to , 
food of the esculent swallow. Another species 
.uer spcti- 
in the island of Java, forms a nest, in which 
are merely agglutinated by a substance exactly ■' [,> 
of which exclusively the edible nests consist. _ 
tb« 
derived, is essentially uniform, differing only b' ^|,tj 
according to the relative age of the nests. ca p 
of those diversities which might be expected, if, '^^,0^1)' ( 1 ;( 
employed by tlie martin, and the materials 
in nest-making, it were collected casually, and apl 
rocks. Were it to consist of the substances usua ; 
it would be putrescent and diversified. 
'I’lIE MIGRATION OF BIRDS. 
Yea, the stork in the heavens hiowethh^ 
and t>‘ 
r 
times; and the turtle, and the crane. 
olserve the time of their coming. 
iK*” 
Who bUts the stoik, Cohinibus like, ® 
Heaven.s not his own, ami worlds iiak"."''.,, ? , 
Who calls the eimncil, states the certain 
Who forms the plmhinx, and wlio points 
The migration of birds, which is common to 
stork, the crane, the fieldfare, the woodcock,^ j"’- 
the martin, the swallow, and various others, 
sidered as one of tlie most wonderful iro>t‘0 ' 
Two circumstances. Doctor Derham observe ' 
able in this migration ; the first, that thes ^j^gir O*' 
creatures should know the proper times for 
when to come, and when to go, some depart' e 
