FULMARUS GLACIALIS. 439 
Blane’ [Privately printed, 1827]*. The whole cliff is of amazing 
height and perpendicular both above and below this narrow track. 
Near the commencement of it I was let down tothe Fulmars. They 
looked like Kittiwakes, and at first I declared that they were so. 
One man, a regular giant, playful too, let me down, passing the rope 
round a short stake behind his back. Several men assisted in 
hauling up, pulling in time, bending their backs, like rowers. The 
rope was tied with tarred twine into a circle. This was put round 
the loins, and then an endless worsted band is put round one thigh 
over the rope and round the other thigh.* For my own satisfaction 
1 [I have not seen this work; but Dr. Bonney kindly tells me that the ‘scene ” 
is that depicted in the fourth of the unnumbered plates.— Ep. | 
2 [Here is inserted in the Egg-book a rough sketch intended to shew the 
_arrangement described in the text; but though quite correct it is not very 
intelligible, so that instead of reproducing it I have availed myself of a more 
finished drawing, with which I have been favoured by a friend. This will be 
easily understood. The endless thigh-band is marked by a, and 8 is the loop of 
rope that goes round the loins, while the way the combination of the two is worn 
is shewn by the human figure. A simpler and more effective contrivance for rock- 
climbing can hardly be devised.—Lp. | 
