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antic fays, “e he faw a bufhel of Swallows: cluter : 
together, taken out of a frozen fifh. pond. y a 
Dr. Colas, fpeaking of the manner of fifhing in northem 
climates, by breaking holes, ‘and drawing nets under the1 1c 
Z afferts, that he faw fees Swallows fo drawn out of the Lake ) 
of Samrodt; thirty out cf a great pond belonging to Ro 
Gineilen ; and at Schlebitten, near a houfe of the Earl of 
Dolma, he faw two Swallows juft come out of the water 
‘that could fcarcely ftand, being very wet and weak, and ae 
‘the wings hanging on the ground. ! - 
- To fupport thefe furprifing, and confeffedly rare inflances, 
by fome kind of analogy, they refer to the cafe of the larve 
“of many infe&s, of frogs, the amphibious animals, and filh, 
' It is objefted, that Olaus Magnus, who broached this 
do&rine, feems to have been very credulous, or very for 
tunate, that at the fame time that he has peopled the water 
with Swallows, he has tranflated mice to the clouds; and 
that his writings are very amufing, and abound with wom 
ders. : | a 
That Linneus stati his affertion to two of the tye | 
@ cies; that he does not profefs to have feen, or to vouch the 
| truth of every thing he relates. 
On the authority of Keoping, he has Tather favoured te 
_ opinion, that there are men with tails. : 
On Solander’s authority, he has given a wonderful secouth 
of the Furia, an infeét in Bothnia, which falling out of the 
eir upon the bodies of men, or animals, penetrates them 
an inftant, and affli@s them with pain fo excruciating, as 0 
ae fatal in a quarter of an hour. i 
On the authority of Baron Munchaufen, he {peaks He ke 
feeds of Fungufles, which being difperfed in water, live,’ al 
move, at laft fix themfelves, and become Fungulles again | 
-A\nimals thus becoming vegetables, a 
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