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for fwimming, and perfectly adapted to their 
manner of life. 
The whole order of the goofe kind, as 
ducks, merganfer, &c. pafs their lives in wa- 
ter as feeding upon water- infe&s, fifhes, and 
their eggs 8 . Who does not fee, that attends 
ever fo little, how exactly the wonderful! for- 
* notes, they imagined that (erne people brought up to our 
5 mufic, were finging. This animal is called by the na~ 
G tives Haut, certainly becaufe going thro 5 thefe mufica! 
c intervals, it repeats, Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, &c. 
This account feems very wonderful!, and i leave it as it 
.{lands without entering into any difcuffion about its credibi- 
lity. I will only add, that Linnaeus feems in the new edi- 
tion of the Syfl. Nat. to give credit to it. For he fays in 
bis ihort way of defcription among other things, ‘ It utters 
an afcending Kexacord. Its noife is horrible, its tears pi- 
G teous.’ He quotes Mangrave, Clufius, Gefner, &c. but 
not having an opportunity of confulting thefe books i can- 
not tell how far thefe authors confirm the foregoing account ; 
if it be true, it would furnifh fome obfervations, but this 
would not be a place for them. 
s Many opinions, fays the author in the note, have 
been ftarted in order to account how it happens that fifhes 
are found in pools, and ditches, on high mountains and 
elfewHere. But Gmelin obferves that the duck kind fwal- 
Iow the eggs of fifhes, that feme of thefe eggs go down, 
and come out of their bodies unhurt, and fo are propagated 
juft in the fame manner, as has been obferved of plants. 
Biberg. 
Gmelin adds, that the Sibirians themfelves account for 
this phenomenon in the manner above mentioned. 
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