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(* Tobit ii. 10.)
Perhaps it may be some amusement to you to hear at what times
the different species of hirundines arrived this spring in three very
distant counties of this kingdom. With us the swallow was seen
first on April the 4th, the swift on April the 24th, the bank-martin
on April the 12th, and the house-martin not till April the 30th. At
South Zele, Devonshire, swallows did not arrive till April the 25th;
swifts, in plenty, on May the 1st; and house-martins not till the
middle of May. At Blackburn, in Lancashire, swifts were seen
April the 28th, swallows April the 29th, house-martins May the 1st.
Do these different dates, in such distant districts, prove anything
for or against migration ?
A farmer, near Weyhill, fallows his land with two teams of asses;
one of which works till noon, and the other in the afternoon. When
these animals have done their work, they are penned, all night, like
sheep, on the fallow. In the winter they are confined and foddered
in a yard, and make plenty of dung.
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