
POSE FT RD 6... 25 
ontiles in length, fucceeding one another almoft 7 
- Continually for three days together, 
They alight in fuch numbers upon trees, as. 
frequently to break off by their weight limbs of 
the largeft oaks, and the “eround under the trees 
where they have roofted, is covered to a confides 
table depth with their manure. ; 
In North America the Indians watch their 
rooiting places, go there in the night with long 
~ poles, and kill them by thoufands. Formerly in 
almoft every little town in the interior. parts of | 
Carolina, the inhabitants would provide a hun-. - 
dred gallons of the fat or oil of thefe Pigeons, 
Which they eat with maize inftead of butter, 
A gentleman thought of a method of taking » 
thefe Pigeons in great numbers, and with little 
trouble. He placed a veflel with burning fulphur 
under the trees, where they roofted ; the fumes 
- fuffocated them, and brought them down in - 
thowers, bs 
Tn Philadelphia the inhabitants often fhoot them 
from the tops of their houfes, : 
Tt is very fingular that fome days, when al 
moit all the inhabitants of a town go out to kill 
Piveons, and deftroy great numbers, that not one 
hen Pigeon fhall be found amongft them ; and 
‘on other days not one cock. 
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