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 kinds of ea-fih jut pawned, and with which that element warms, for ome miles ditance from the hore, in numbers truly astonihing. Thee little creatures come into the rivers like a living tream, and in a hort time wim two or three miles to an amazing height up the country. This they perform in a wonderful manner, kipping over uch rapid treams, as repel their weak endeavours, from rock to rock, the urfaces of which are covered with them: or, eeking the moothly gliding tream at the ide of the banks, by degrees acend the highet parts of the rivers.

The firt day of the appearance of thee frey in the rivers they are tranparent and clear as crytal, o that every bone in them may be counted, and the movement of their vitals can be plainly dicerned. The econd day after, they loe much of that tranparency; and the third or fourth day, it is wholly lot by