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and feeling an inclination to count the flocks that might pass within the reach of my eye in one hour, i dismounted, seated myself on an eminence, and began to mark with my pencil, making a dot for every flock that passed. in a short time, finding the task that i had undertaken impracticable, as the birds
in the minute. this will give us a parallelogram of miles by , covering square miles. allowing two pigeons to the square yard, we have one billion, one hundred and fifteen millions, one hundred and thirty six thousand pigeons in one flock ..." we all have difficult with numbers of such magnitude - birds...
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