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‘& THE NATURAL HISTORY. 
is kept, and in one day pafles over a {pace 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 faid 
that a Pigeon went from Babylon to Aleppo, 
which is thirty days journey, in forty-eight hours. 
At the fiege of Modena, Pliny mentions, that 
Hirtius without, and Brutus within the walls, 
- | kept up a conftant correfpondence by Pigeons ; 
and by that means baffled every attempt of Ane 
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 
i others ~ anfwer the purpofe. 
The Horfeman | is a breed between the Carrier 
and Powter, and often employed to convey letters. 
A Dragoon Pigeon, which is bred by a Carrier 
and Horfeman, flew from St. Edmund’s Bury to 
Bifhopfgate- -ftreet, which is feventy- two bag ae 
-— two hours and a half, 
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