OF BIRDS. 
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miles in length, fuccceding one another almoft 
continually for three days together. 
1 hey alight in fuch numbers upon trees, as 
frequently to break off by their weight limbs of 
the largefl oaks, and the ground under the trees 
where they have rootled, is covered to a confidc- 
rable depth with their manure. 
In North America the Indians watch their 
roofting places, go there in the night with long 
poles, and kill them by thoufands. I ormcrly in 
almoft every tittle town in the interior parts of 
Carolina, the inhabitants would provide a hun¬ 
dred gallons of the fat or oil of thefe Pigeons, 
which they eat with maize inftcad of butter. 
A gentleman thought of a method of taking 
thefe Pigeons in great numbers, and with little 
trouble. lie placed a veflel with burning fulphur 
under the trees, where they roofted ; the fumes 
fuffocatcd them, and brought them down in 
Ihowers. 
In Philadelphia the inhabitants often fhoot them 
from the tops of their houfes. 
It is very lingular that fome days, when al- 
mofl; all the inhabitants of a town go out to kill 
Pigeons, and deftroy great numbers, that not one 
hen Pigeon fliall be found amongft them; and 
on other days not one cock. 
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