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power of leaping to a furprifing height in 

 order to get over them. This place being 

 only a few miles from the fea, is frequent- 

 ed by great numbers. In the courfe of 

 an hour, I have fometimes obferved thirty 

 or forty of them attempt to get up, but On 

 account of a net which the renters of the 

 fifhery place for the purpofe, they very 

 feldom fucceed. This extraordinary power 

 of leaping fo high, feems to be owing to a 

 fudden jerk which the fifh gives to it's 

 body, from a bent into a ftraight pofition. 

 At this place, when tired with making 

 many vain attempts to furmount the bar- 

 rier, they retire to reft in the ftill waters 

 below, where they are either taken in nets, 

 or killed by ftriking them with an harpoon. 

 By the latter method, though it feems 

 extremely cruel, the men are always fo 

 certain in their aim, that I have feen five 

 or fix killed in lefs than an hour. The 

 general weight of fifh taken here, in the 

 C c 2 months 



