. The natural and civil history of Vermont [microform]. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. ft . • a'K^. 114 ^Ji NMSRAL Jkir^ CHriL gGpountt whfdi arei^c^ of the ii^iblteK olf|^%^ , to iktvincnhii^AWAij^riiM^ i^oll incredible io thoCm wko;hMi:p0ii&:f^^ai^mi Hcftfl f lie foti^)r(^/iilfiM^ IM^ tke lincurfaich dividct Mi^iicilnfeili f tbm VjeritipliCy in *> 74^ * fi^ ve this «ccount of the appea?m^^g^f^hidbf Me inet with to the weAv^aucd df,Coiiiie£|ie|Krtiiien'^l%r three tnibs teech I • tneet at due linve ilandroonidtiii^y hair^6eefi tt^l*^ cd on the hemlocks, lo weil, I ^ouhtr o(»4-bii


. The natural and civil history of Vermont [microform]. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. ft . • a'K^. 114 ^Ji NMSRAL Jkir^ CHriL gGpountt whfdi arei^c^ of the ii^iblteK olf|^%^ , to iktvincnhii^AWAij^riiM^ i^oll incredible io thoCm wko;hMi:p0ii&:f^^ai^mi Hcftfl f lie foti^)r(^/iilfiM^ IM^ tke lincurfaich dividct Mi^iicilnfeili f tbm VjeritipliCy in *> 74^ * fi^ ve this «ccount of the appea?m^^g^f^hidbf Me inet with to the weAv^aucd df,Coiiiie£|ie|Krtiiien'^l%r three tnibs teech I • tneet at due linve ilandroonidtiii^y hair^6eefi tt^l*^ cd on the hemlocks, lo weil, I ^ouhtr o(»4-biit' five i thoti^md^ at one > tutn Toiiad;'*^ . The r?iiiAirka>VJ the firft^ttlers of Vermont, iiiUyiicon^iiii^bfi ic counti The following. rel(i^icMii>if|i«|.|kven me; by] one of the earlieft .^l^ra atl) r^l^jreiidOD^ f :*f The | fitniiher of pigeons I ITi^enty^five nelb j :%mre frequently to he found pn mn4 iK^cih tree. l^he^earth jw^si coveri^d with thefd tpfcs;' and»"withj hemlodcs, thus loaded 'With' ther'nclli of'pigeofis. For an hundred acres together, the grooiid was cov* rered with their' dung, toithe dq»tb ^HitM> inchei.; Their noiie in t^ evcni|ig~ wafti>:e3^i:^(^! trioiibli!- ^me^ and (b great that'^ .tm»e!iei^<vteoi»ul not get an)^ ileep, where thejf ncils #ere ilhtcl^i: ^j^^lrboitt «ft^ hourafter funrife, they rbfe infoeh i,]Mun]b^jil^4 darj^^n the air; When, the youngi^pi^Kons were| grown to a coiiQ^^able bigliei)^, beifo^ they^ couli: readily fly^i^t was common for the^ fBttlets < to 'Ciit| down thft trte$,;axid«gather a. hor(e load jh aifeifl ; The,ifettlemeni; of ^thc, country hasl fince fet bounds to this Juxjuriancy ^^f animal Ufe;! diminilbed the number of thefe Mtds^ and droyej tbcm further to the northward. -w We have four fpecies 'of jSwal f 0 ws in this pait of] American i. THe houfe fwaHow.' Thia m^y bel readily di(lingui(hdd fxom the reft, by the greater j forkedpe^ « Belkntp't Hift


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