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The Swall ow tribe appears to belong equally to. 
is continents. Indeed what country can we 
ee inaccefible to birds who fly fo well, and - 
i _ tranfport themfelves from one place to another, 
with fuch wonderful facility. : 
With regard to the migration of Swallows, naturalifts are 
very much divided. 3 
There are three opinions on this fubje&t. 
‘The fuftis, that they remove tn the winter to warmer climates, _ 
tn fearch of in fect food. 
~The fecond, that they retire ta caverns, ae hollows of rocks, 
and pa/s the winter there, torpid. 
e |The third opinion is, that ihey conceal themfelves under water, 
tn the winter, colleéting (as fome fay), in numbers on a-reed, 

: eral of them take a fraw between their beaks, and plunge toge- 
seams 
; unite their feet together, and immerfe themfelves in clufters. 
‘The advocates for the firft opinion, that they remove io ) 
‘warmer climates, quote feveral authorities. E 
_ Peter Martyr fays, that he Anows that Kites and aes 
F qi Europe at the approach of winter, and pafs into Egypt. 

“Father Kirker afferts, upon the teflimony of the inhabi- 
_ tants.of the Morea, that a great number of Swallows and 
~ Storks pats every year from Egypt and Lybia, to Europe. 
Mr. Adanfon, an attentive obferver, and highly deferving 
ition, aflerts, that Chimney Swallows arrive at Senegal 
about the gth of Oftober, and return in the {pring. ‘That 
on the 6th of O&ober, being fifty leagues from the coalt, 
- between the Iland of Goree and Senegal, he faw four Swal- 
lows, 
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until it break, and let them genily fink. Others relate, tha fe | 
” ther beneath the furface ; whilft others again affert, that they , 
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