14 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
is kept, and in one day partes over a fpace that a 
man would be fix days in travelling. 
At Aleppo they have Pigeons which will bring 
letters in lefs than fix days from Alexandria, al¬ 
though it be four hundred miles diftant. It is find 
that a Pigeon went from Babylon to Aleppo, 
which is thirty days journey, in forty-eight hours. 
At the fiegc of Modena, Pliny mentions, that 
Plirtius without, and Brutus within the walls, 
kept up a conftant correfpondence by Pigeons; 
and by that means baffled every attempt of An¬ 
tony, (who was befieging the place,) to inter¬ 
cept their letters. 
In England they are often let loofe at Tyburn 
to inform the diftant friends of the criminal of his 
difgraceful death. 
They do not always ufe on thefe occafions the 
Carrier, which is a valuable Pigeon, as many 
others will anfwer the purpofe. 
. The Horfeman is a breed between the Carrier 
and Powter, and often employed to convey letters. 
A Diagoon Pigeon, which is bred by a Cartier 
and Horfeman, flew from St. Edmund’s Bury to 
Bifliopfgate-ftreet, which is feventy-two miles, in 
two hours and a half. 
The 
