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others that are just hatched ; thus thej continue breeding most 

 part of the Year. They not only prey upon Birds, Beasts, and 

 Fishes, but upon any thing they are able to destroy. They are 

 very destructive to Poultry, Lambs, young Fawns, and Pigs, 

 which they frequently carry Squalling into the Air, and so 

 bring them with ease to their young ones. They can fly from 

 Morning till Night, and that very high, notwithstanding they 

 are heavy of flight, and cannot get their food by swiftness, to 

 help which, there is a Fishing-Hawh, that catches Fish, which 

 it suffers the Eagle to take from it, notwithstanding it is a 

 large and swift Fowl, and can make far better way than the 

 Eagle can, and it is very pleasant to behold the flight of these 

 two Birds, which sometimes continues for above half an Hour, 

 at length it lets fall the Fish which the Eagle frequently 

 catches before it touches the Earth or Water. These Bald 

 Eagles will likewise attend the Hunts-men, in the Winter time 

 for several Hours together (but at a great distance) till they 

 shoot some game, which they frequently flie away with, dead 

 or wounded. Their I^ests are made of Twigs, Sticks, and 

 several kinds of Pubbish, and generally so large that it is 

 enough to fill a handsome Cart's Body, and commonly so full 

 of nasty Bones and Carcasses that it smells most offensively. 

 It is the opinion of most People in those parts that these 

 Eagles are not Bald till they are two or three Years old. 

 They are the strongest Birds of prey that are yet known in 

 these parts of Artierica. 



The Black-Eagles are much the same sort as are to be met 

 with in Ireland, but not altogether so large as the former, yet 

 in all other respects as mischievous, and build Nests after the 

 same manner in old Trees naked of Boughs, and nigh the 

 River side, from whence as I suppose, they may have a pros- 

 pect of the Fishing-Hawhs, for when they see the Fishing- 

 Hawk 



