Ort fuch claffical authority we admire 

 the flights of fea-gulls, as a proper ornament 

 in a fcene like this^ It was amufmg to ob- 

 ferve, how quickly they difcovered the re- 

 linquifhed fhore, long before it was difcoverable 

 by us ; and to fee them running in appearance 

 on the furface of the water. For tho the tide 

 had in thofe parts left the land ; yet the mud 

 from it's perfect flatnefs long retained it's 

 glazed, and watry appearance. The cormorant 

 alfo fat watching the ebbing tide: but he 

 feemed bent on matters of greater importance. 

 He did not, like the idle gull, wheel round 

 the air; nor pace about the ebbing fhore, 

 mixing bufmefs and amufement together. 

 With eager attention he took his ftand on 

 fome folitary poft, fet up to point the 

 channel of the river ; and from that eminence 

 obferved from the dimpling of the waters, 

 where fome poor, wandering fifli had gotten 

 itfelf entangled in the {hallows, whom he 

 marked for certain definition. 



But thefe are not the only birds, which- 

 inliven a voyage up Beaulieu-river. In the 

 lines I have juft quoted from Virgil's de- 

 fcription of /Eneas's entrance into the Tyber 

 (the whole of which might ferve with very- 

 little 



