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without doubt, during his fafc, circulates thro* 
his veflels, and fupplies the place of food ^ to 
which perhaps is added that fat juice which 
he fucks out of the bottom of his feet. 
The hedge-hog , badger and mole in the 
fame manner fill their winter quarters with ve? 
getables, and fleep during the frofts. 
The bat feems cold, and quite dead all 
the winter. Mofi: of the amphibious animals get 
into dens , or to the bottom of lakes and pools. 
In the autumn, as the cold approaches, and 
infers difappear, fw allows k feek for an afylum 
againfb the violence of the cold in the bottom 
of 
k I never had but one credible teftimony that fwallows 
pafs the winter at the bottom of lakes or ponds ; and this 
from a gentleman of character, who faw a fwallow fo found 
brought to life by warmth. On the other hand, i know of 
no author but Herodotus who mentions their being feen in 
any countrey during the winter. He lib. 2. p. 109. edit. 
Steph.fays, that fwailows and kites continue all the year about 
the fprings of the Nile. What he mentions concerning kites 
deferves fome notice, viz. that they lye concealed in holes a few 
days. Pliny fays a few months. Gefner repeats the fame, add- 
ing that they have been found in hollow trees fomcwhere in 
Upper Germany, but he feems to relate this upon hearfay 
only. Aldrovandus gives the fame account as Gefner, and 
adds that they winter in iEgypt, but whether upon the au- 
thority of Bellonius cr any other credible writer, does not 
appear. 
