28 NETHER LOCBABER. 



eggs of wild-fowl, to procure which they are obliged to hang 

 suspSnded from ropes oyer the most dreadful precipices, in the 

 clefts and along the otherwise inaccessible ledges of which the sea- 

 fowl breed, wiU have no difficulty in understanding the general 

 drift of the island maid's very spirited and very earnest song. It 

 is, perhaps, unnecessary to say that as ling, conger, hake, and grey- 

 fish are certain kinds of sea fish, so fulmar, guUlemot, kittiwake, 

 puffin, and scart are certain kinds of web-footed sea-fowl. 



