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i - are fart foftened by sii fteeped in 
iter, then pulled to pieces, nie into the ee of 
fowl, and ftewed. ; 
| Mr. Poivre fays, that in the months af March 
“chin-China, and from Sumatra to Guinea, iS 
Covered with a vifcous fubfance, (perhaps fifh 
awn) which refemb'es glue, or ifinglafs diffolved, 
he Efculent Swallow is fuppofed to make its neft 
bitance of the neft. 
nglafs; and as the materials of which it is made 
in caverns, fheltered from rain. 
s, , and are ufed ¢ as hie: 
April, the furface of the fea from Java G < 
this matter, which it may collect as it flies, ae 
ke from the. rocks, where it may a ¢ been left 
Mt. Poivre colleGed, and ved fome of. this :: : 
ubftance, and found it refemble es nearly the — 
he colour of the new nefts is white, like a 
fe foluble in water, the birds very wilely build : 
Y me of the nefts are of a — Bsa thee 
: he nefts weigh about half a an ounce each ; ; they 

