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exposing her egg to the open air, and the ut- 

 most extremity of stormy winds ; and those 

 eggs, or the squirts (with other fowls) are so fix'd 

 by contact of a glutinous specimen to the re- 

 mote points of the rocks, that they seem conglu- 

 tinated, and so intirely inoculated, as that no ex- 

 tremity of weather can separate them asunder, 

 and where the female never hatches more than 

 one single egg at once : and that egg she plants 

 so evenly in the web of her foot, by placing her 

 body exactly over it ; that when she relinquish- 

 eth the rock for relief, with admirable circum- 

 spection she raises her self, by cautiously dila- 

 ting her web, as the aspry does to circulate the 

 air, who after the same method as when she 

 leaves her egg, so she falls by circulating the air, 

 and dilating her web in the same order and de- 

 corum as above ; with such an exact poize and 

 evenness of body to cover her egg, that no art 

 nor industry can imitate or accomplish. So that 

 the egg no sooner sprits, but it tumbles dow r n 

 into the brinish ocean for nature to nourish it. 

 After this manner she hatcheth her young ones ; 

 and after this manner 1 am authorized to publish 

 it 



Theoph. So much for geese, this was a rarity 

 indeed ; but not so eminently remarkable as the 

 six great patriots of the English nation. 



Arn. You push too hard upon me, however 



