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lows, which reded on his (hi.p ; they were all To fatigued, 
that they fuffered themfelves to be taken, and he knew them 
to be at leafl of the European fpecies. 
About the fame feafon, in the year 5 765, the Vifcount 
Ouerhoent, an intelligent Natural Hiftorian, relates, that 
the Perithievre, a French {hip, was almoft darkened by a 
cloud of Swallows, near the Cape do Verd Iflands. 
Leguat, on the 12th of November, !a’w four Swallows, 
which accompanied his veffel to the Cape de \ eid Iflands. 
Chriftopher Columbus, in his iccond voyage, faw one 
which flew near his Chip, ten days before he difeovered Do¬ 
minica. 
Forfter, and many other travellers, and writers of re- 
fpeftable authority, fpeak decidedly tojimilar ciicumftances, 
of Swallows flying near (hips, at fome diftance from land: 
and other attentive obfervers, have aflerted, that Swallows 
leave England about the latter end of September ; that pro¬ 
digious fwarms aifentble at that time on the Coaft of Suffolk 
and Norfolk; that they reft on trees, churches, and other 
buildings foi fome days, if the wind be unfavourable ; but 
that if it fhonld change in the night, and become propitious, 
thev all disappear before morning. 
Mr. Collinfon, a very refpehtable Member of the Royal 
Society, mentions two curious relations, of good authority-; 
the one communicated by Sir Charles Wager, the other by a 
Mr. Wright, smaller of a (hip. Sir Charles Wager writes, 
8 Returning home in the fpring of the year, as 1 came into 
< founding, in our channel, a great flock of Swallows came, 
« and fettled on all my rigging; every rope was covered; 
8 thev hung on one another like a fwarm of bees; the decks, 
* and carving, were filled with them: they feemed almoft 
8 familhed and fpent, and were only feathers and bones, but 
‘ being 
