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dives into space from the ledge near which you have been 

 standing. Much of impetus there must be in that apparently 

 effortless plunge, or is it merely the weight of its own body 

 (6 lbs.) which is enough to carry the Solan Goose a quarter 

 of a mile in one long stately curve, before it need use 



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its wings again ? As a Gannet thus launches forth from 

 the cliff, it will be perceived by anyone who is standing 

 beneath, that the legs are stretched out but that the great 

 webbed feet are folded close. Guillemots and Puffins use 

 their feet a great deal for steering, but I do not remember 



