ty 6 OF THE USE 
When the little crow was driven out of Vir- 
ginia, and that at the expence of feveral tuns 
of gold, the inhabitants w r ould willingly have 
brought them back again at double the price, 
as we find by profeffor Kalm. The vultures 
in Cairo are invited yearly, and daily to re- 
main there, as dodtor HafTelquift relates in 
A6L Sac. reg. Scient. Stockhoh 1751* p. 196. 
et fequ. Thefe creatures of prey cleanfe the 
ground from carcafes, and make it wholefome, 
and pure, and befides they ferve to keep up a 
due proportion between animals, fo that one 
fort may not ftarve the reft. 
The vulgar think, and thofe who think 
themfelves wifer than the vulgar, make no 
fcruple to fay ; let him who has nothing to do 
employ himfelf in hunting after moffes dnd flies . 
By which they would infinuate, that fearch- 
ing after the minute plants, and animals is 
unbecoming, or at leaft unneceffary for a ra- 
and grafs to fuch a degree, that i myfelf have fieen a piece of 
pailure land, where you might turn up the turf with your 
foot. 
Mr. Matthews a very obferving and excellent farmer, of 
Wargrove in Berkihire, told me that the rooks one year, 
while his men were houghing a tnrnep field, fat down in 
part of it, where they were not at work, and that the crop 
was very fine in that part; whereas in the other part there 
were no turncps that year. 
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