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YOUR correspondent, Dr. P. P. C. Hoek, requests information respecting the origin of the fable to which the poet Longfellow refers at the end of the first part of “Evangeline”—“The stone in the nest of the swallow.” In Burton's “Anatomy of Melancholy,” p. 434, at the top (Win. Tegg's edition), after describing in the delightfully quaint style of the age the curative virtues of various stones, he quotes the following:—
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LOCKE, J. The Stone in the Swallow. Nature 22, 146 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022146a0
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