FOW 
The lighteft coloured geefe are the beft, and thofe that 
begin to lay the fooneft ; ae they have hatch- 
ing twice in.one year, They ee to lay in the {pring, 
and lay twelve or fixteen eggs. n geefe are begun to 
es. 
be fattened at a month old. and will be fattened ina month 
more. Old geefe are chiefly fattened at fix months old, in 
or after the harve ild goofe, if red-footed and hairyy 
; but if whites sae and not hairy, fhe is young. 
See Goose and Pou 
j the eggs are ee ander a hen, or other fowl, it 1s 
advifeable to mark the upper fides thereat: and when fhe 
goes to feed, to note whether fhe minds to turn them upfide 
down or not; if fhe neglect that office it may be done for 
her 
er 
The § Sea-fowls, which come on fhore in immenfe numbers 
ft in the mie se = oe fet beet yh ee 
and caper at di o give them any 
e leaft ne from a ae aren es rifes, 
not to be alar 
any thing. eople of ae country know this; and 
when they go out to take them, they employ all their art 
to take the centinels without noife; this they fometimes 
fucceed in, and when they do, they often afterwards catch 
three hundred of the others, or more, in one night. Phil. 
Tranf. N° 233. 
The eles id thefe a is lefs certain as to tim 
than, might be imagined. can occafionally defer oe 
and as they ufu ail, lay ina eh feafon, if the rain does 
ufual time, they all defer it fome 
April moon goes far in May, that alfo 
has been obferved to hinder them from laying ten or twelve 
ge The net 
ways made of the imalleft ae “fhe ee Pp 
can be got. The mefhes may be large, but the nets fhould 
be lined on both fides. with other {maller nets, every mefh 
of which is to be about an inch and a half {quare a way, 
that asthe fowl ftrike either through them or againft them, 
the {maller may pafs through the great mefhes, and fo 
ftraighten and entangle the owl, 
Thefe nets are - ‘be pitched for every, evening flight of 
fowl, about a r before fun-fet, {taking t 
t hal a foot within the water, the 
wife, fhoaling againft the water, cr. i touching it by 
near two feet ; and let the ftrings, which fupport this upper 
fide of the net, be faftened to {mall yielding fticks fet in 
rikes, will give the net 
hem. fe 
liberty t Several of the 
nets — be placed at once over different parts of = 
iver, about 
twelve toe fathom diftance one from a 
f 
Itisa 
are fet, to. po to places fufficiently diftant from them with 
tighten them pol the places where the nets 
o 
not be amifs to ean ea ey alfo there, to take them as 
return, T 
e Ceylonefe fae. great plenty of water-fowl wild on 
ne ifland, and have a very remarkable way of catching 
them oneach g 
e fowl are ftarted from, it may | 
nis to go and fee what is . 
FOW 
them, which is this; the fowler enters p Jake or sd water 
which has a Lae bottom, and is not very deep; he puts 
an earthen upon his head, i in which there. are bored 
e furface 3 
S the place where the wild fowl a are 
cite it into his bag, which is faftened about his middle, 
e fame 
n places where this has 
been praétited fo ise or fo eae, that the birds are 
fhy, the fowler ~ a gun; but this he does in the follow- 
ing manner: he makes a {cr een of about five feet high, and 
three feet wide, which he carries in one hand ftraight between 
himfelf and his game, and in the other hand his s gun, he 
ECOY. 
See alfo Birp- Catchin 
Fow:t Dung, the dneg of all forts of domeftic bird 
which is faid to be excellent asa top-dreffing, when iow 
over ha corn crops by the hand. See Tor-dreffng. 
ee that fort which is afforded by fowls, 
See “Maw 
ows "Wild, driving of. 
on Dr RIVI 
Oe a VAR Ds in B 
after to 
of arts. At Trinity Selle, Cambridge, he took the de- 
ree of matter of arts, and was oe orated i 
degree at Oxford, in the year He was prefented 
about this period with the redtory of Northill, in Bedford- 
fhire, but as he had been educated in Prefbyterian ipaacibles 85 
he {crupled, at firft, to comply with the terms of conformity, 
eftablifhed at the reftoration of Charles II. ; his views being, 
however, change admitted a a clergyman of the 
church of England, to which he eae adhered to the end 
of his life. In the year 1673 was introduced by arch- 
2 Sheldon to the let of “All. nallows, Bread-ftreet, 
London: and foon after he was prefented with a prebend 
in the cathedral church of Gloucefter; and Slain vica- 
rage of St. Giles’s, Cripplegate. In 1681 he accumulated 
the degrées o an and dodtor of divinity in eile uni- 
verfity of Oxf Dr. Fowler poffeffed a mind much too 
i i) i ene i : lived. He was pro- 
fecuted and fufpended by the inftruments of jana II.’s 
tyrann der pretence of having tranfgreffed the canons of 
the ch He was not to be intimidate the infli&tion 
of illegal punifhments : he ftill refifted the unconftitutional 
attempts of king James to extend the rega | prerogative by 
afluming a power to difpenfe with the exifting laws; and 
st aes A eg who, in 1688, figned a refoluticn 
w 
entered in clergy, not to read the king's 
new declaration liberty of conicience- This refolution 
“was 
