tie NATURAL HISTORY. 
of furnmer, fhe builds a neft, with fifh bones and fea 
weeds, fo curious and impregnable, as to fwim and 
hatch her young on the fea, which at that time is 
particularly calm and ferene. This has given rife to 
a proverbial faying, when we allude to any particular 
eriod of our lives, wherein we have experienced un- 
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iriterrupted happinefs, which are called halcyon days. — 

