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Cornelius le Bruyn’s Travels nto Mufcovy, Perfia, Gc. there be will find defcribed the 
Spoon-bill, call'd im the Ruffian Language Calpetfe, Vol. 1. P. gt. of the Englith 
Lranflation. he Bald Coot, call’din the Perfian, Paes-jelek, Vol. 1. P. 182. The 
Pelican, calld by the Ruffians, Babbe er Water-Carrier, Vol. 2. P.167. Now thefe- 
Birds being all very well defcribed by natural Hiftorians, they need no farther Deferip- 
tions; but he did not mean to give us things before defcribed, but, through Ignorance 
wu that particular Part of natural Hiftory, fuppofed thefe Birds altogether unknown, 
Since he bas not given them their common European Names; it is Jurprifing be fhould 
not know the Spoon-bill, decaufe thofe who have defcribed it make it a Native of Hol- 
land, and tell the Place where it builds and breeds. It is fill more firange be Should 
go to M{pahan to figure and defcribe the Bald Coot, which abounds in every Canal and 
Dike round about the Hague the Place of his Birth: It fhews a fond Inclination to 
difcover the Rarities of foreign Countries, before a Perfon has attained the Knowledge of 
what is to be known in bis native Country: Which is to begin where one fhould end ; fe 
that all People who go abroad on any Difcoveries fhould be qualified as above-mentioned, 
but more particulary all fhould inform themfelves, as far as may be, at home, in thofe 
things they exprefly go to make farther Difcoveries of. For want of fuch Qualifications, 
and through difhoneft Principles, Vice and Indolence, many who have been fent abroad at 
the Expence of others, have in no fort anfwered the Expectations of thofe who fent them, 
which bath difcouraged Gentlemen of Curiofity and Fortune from advancing Money on 
Such fruitle/s Expeditions. ap 
Neverthelefs fome Men thus fent, have with great labour and honefly anfwer'd the Ex- 
pectations of their Patrons. It would be very proper for all Travellers into Soreign Parts, 
to take notice of what Birds and Beafts they find, and at what Seafons of the Year they find 
them, and at what Times they dYfappear, and when they appear again; that Jo we may in 
rime give a tolerable account of the Places to which Birds and Beajts of Paffage go that are 
Sound with us, and in other Countries only at certain S eafons of the Year. Many may think 
perbaps that there are no Beafts of Paffage, but I have been informed by a Perfon of Repu- 
tation, who now refides in one of the Englith Forts in H udfon’s-Bay, that the Deer in that 
Gountry pafs northward in the beginning of Summer, and return to the South at the approach 
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