262 THE GANNET 



Landt's account, the following translation of which is 

 by Professor Newton, seems to be partly copied from the 

 Svabo MS. at Copenhagen. 



TRANSLATION. 



" Myggensesholm lies westward of Myggenses, about 

 20 fathoms distant, and seems to have been formerly riven 

 from that island by a natural revolution. The holm is 

 nearly I mile long,* 800 ells broad, and consists of small 

 basaltic columns placed close together. 



Pelecanus Bassanus. Lin., Sula. A Bird commonly known 

 to sea-faring people as Jan van Gent [John of Ghent or 

 Gannet], which neither builds its nest nor settles itself any- 

 where in the Faeroes but on Myggensesholm alone, and the 

 drongs or rocks standing close by. It shows itself on the 25th 

 of January, which is one of the feast days [Conversion of St. 

 Paul] in the islands ; and its departure is on St. Martin's day 

 [11th of November]. In the middle of April it lays two 

 eggsf which are hatched in 4 weeks, but the young first 

 take flight in September. The old Sula is white and fully 

 as big as a Goose, but the young is grey, and first gets its 

 full colour in the 3rd year, in the meanwhile bearing the 



* Col. Feilden says \ mile Danish is about one mile English, 

 f No doubt a mistake, a single egg is laid, not two. 



