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quent in fair weather, without a ftorm following 

 their appearance. To me it appeared as if they 

 flayed fometimes half an hour and longer under 

 the waves, and the failors affured me they did. 

 They look like fwallows, and like them they 

 Ikim fometimes on the water. 



THE Shearwater (Procellaria Pt(ffi?nts Linn.) 

 is another fea-bird, which we faw every where 

 on our voyage, from the channel to the Ame- 

 rican coafts ; it has much the appearance and 

 fize of the dark grey Sea-gull, or of a Duck ; it 

 has a brown back, and commonly a white ring 

 round its neck, and a peculiar flow way of fly- 

 ing. We plainly faw feme of thefe birds feed on 

 fifli. 



THE Tropic bird (Phaeton cetbcreus Linn.) 

 has very much the fhape of a gull, but two very 

 long feathers, which it has in its tail, diflinguifli 

 it enough from any other bird ; its flight is often 

 exceedingly high : the firft of this kind we met 

 was at about forty deg. north lat. and forty-nine 

 or fifty deg. weft long, from London. 



COMMON Gulls (Larus canus Linn.) we faw, 

 when we were oppofite the Land's End, the 

 moft wefterly cape of England, and when, ac- 

 cording to our reckoning, we were oppofite Ire- 

 land. 



TERNS (Sterna bir undo Linn.) though of a 

 fomewhat darker colour than the common ones, 

 \ve found after the forty- firft deg. of north lat. 

 and forty-feventh deg. weft long, from London, 

 very plentifully, and ibmetimes in flocks of fome 

 hundreds ; fometimes they fettled, as if tired, on 

 our (hip, 



WITHIN 



