
OF. B8 I:R-D S. 198 
q Al is further objected that the inftances adduted are very 
few, and moft of them grounded upon hearfay.—-Thatif this 
really. were the fa&t, they would often be taken in nets by 
c fihermen, and the proofs be notorious, from the, frequent. 
experience and teflimony of failors, travellers, fowlers, and. 
tuftics, That as their colle€ting together is a circumfance 
“ of general obfervation, fo their a@tual immerfion, and emer- 
fon, mutt have been frequently feen, if it really exifted. 
It has been publickly advertized in Germany, to any pers 
fon, who in the winter fhould produce Swallows, taken out. 
? of | water, in this torpid fate, to recompenfe them, by pay- 
; ; - ing ‘them the weight of the Swallows fo found in money. 
/ Many literary charaéters, and perfons of diflinGian, ae 
were difpofed to believe this-circumftance, have promifed to 
endeavour to furnifh additional proofs to Mr. Reaumur, and - 
Count Buffon, but have not does ne 

anatomically different ; that having only one auricle, and 
one ventricle, and cold blood, their ftruCture is calculated ta 
admit of their breathing arbitrarily, or at diftant intervals, " : 
whereas there is no fuch contrivance in Swallows. And that 
; —Itiscontended, that the analogy between Swaltcws, and 
amphibious animals, does not firily apply, as the laf are. 
very ingenious anatomift, Mr. John Hunter, has diffefed — 
Bs many Swallows, but found nothing in their organs of refpi- 
C. ration different fram other birds. It is contended too, that 
lizards and frogs, which do fleep during winter, do breathe 
in their torpid fate, confequently that the notion that ter 
~ tefttial animals can remain Jong under water, without drowns 
ing, feems unfounded on obfervation, and improbable. _ 
_ The authors of the Italian Ornithology, and Count Buffon, 
P, "shite wade’ the experiment of plunging Swallows under Was 
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