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The Stork walks flowly, with meafured fteps 
like the Crane, and often makes a ftrange fnap- 
ping noife with his bill. 
At Perfepolis, in Perfia, Storks are in great 
numbers; they build among the ruins, and on 
every pillar almoft there is a neft. They lay from 
two to four eggs: the male fits whilft the female 
goes to feed itfelf. They fit a month; either the 
male or female is conftantly watching near the 
neft. The legs of the young are very long,. 
and at firft too weak to fupport them, fo that 
they draw themfelves about in the neft upon 
their knees. The old birds take great pains 
to teach them to fly; at firft they fly in little 
circles round the neft, and by the latter end of 
Auguft, when they leave Holland and France with 
their parents, to go into warmer climates, they 
can fly very well. 
, When they are met together, in order, like 
other birds of paflage, to Ay into diftant countries, 
they make this fnapping noife with their bills, and 
they wait for a wind from the north, which affifts 
them in their flight to a warmer climate. They 
rife all at once in the air, and difappear in a mo- 
ment. They pafs the winter in Africa, 
Dr, Shaw, whilft he was in a fhip at anchor 
near Mount Carmel, in Turkey, in Afia, faw three 
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