BIRDS. 



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the manner aforesaid. Some rocks are so formed that tlie per- 

 son can go into their cavities by land. 



" These manners are more terrible and dangerous to see than 

 to describe ; especially if one considers the steepness and height 

 of the rocks, it seeming impossible for a man to approach them, 

 much less to climb or descend. In some places, the fowlers are 

 seen climbing where they can only fasten the ends of their toes 

 and fingers ; not shunning such places, though there be a hun- 

 dred fathom between them and the sea. It is a dear meat for 

 these poor people, for which they must venture their lives ; and 

 many, after long venturing, do at last perish therein. 



" When the fowl is brought home, a part thereof is eaten 

 fresh ; another part, when there is much taken, being hung up 

 for winter provision. The feathers are gathered to make mer- 

 chandise of, for other expenses. The inhabitants get a great 

 many of these fowls, as God giveth his blessing and fit weather. 

 When it is dark and hazy, they take most ; for then the birds 

 stay in the rocks : but in clear weather, and hot sun-shine, they 

 seek the sea. When they prepare to dejjart for the season, they 

 keep themselves most there, sitting on the cliffs towards the 

 sea-side, where people get at them sometimes with boats, and 

 take them with fowling-staves." 



Such is the account of this historian ; but we are not to sup- 

 pose that all the birds caught in this manner are of the gull-kind : 

 on the contrary, numbers of them are of the penguin kind ; 

 auks, puffins, and guillemots. These ail come, once a season, 

 to breed in tliese recesses ; and retire in winter to fish in more 

 southern climates. 



CHAP. VII. 



OF THE PENGUIN KIND : AND FIRST, OF THE GREAT 

 MAGELLANIC PENGUIN. 



The gulls arc long-winged, swift flyers, that hover over the 

 most extensive seas, and dart down upon such fish as approacli 

 too near the surface. The penguin kind are but ill fitted for 

 flight, and still less for walkiwjj. Every body nnist have seen 



