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Lacy M. Johnson
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![Screenshot of the following text: “That European birds migrate across the seas or to Asia was understood in the
Middle Ages, but subsequently forgotten.
Dr. Johnson held that swallows slept all winter in the beds of rivers, while the naturalist Morton (1703) stated that they migrated to the moon. As late as 1837 the
"Kendal Mercury" "detailed the
circumstance of a person having observed several Swallows emerging from Grasmere Lake, in the spring of that year, in the form of 'bell-shaped bubbles,' from each of which a Swallow burst forth ...." [The Rev.
F.O. Morris, "A History of British Birds,"
London, 1870]”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5rhyxdp52ewtznncq7rawoap/bafkreigel6taacfroyjfet7vuhguxirtgea4wq7m6i3zqqq466w4qwrkkq)
