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ieaft as Carolina : at the laft place feen, efpecially in March and 

 April, when the Herrings run up the creeks, at which time they 

 may be obferved fitting on the logs of wood which fall into the 

 water, waiting for the palling by of thtfifo *. 'Our laft voyagers 

 met with it in Noctka Sound f. 



The Corvorant, or what has been termed fuch, is faid to be 

 frequently made ufe of by the Chinefe for fiJloing%, of which fome 

 fijbermen keep feveral for that purpofe, and get a good livelihood 

 by it ; and this circumftance, we are told, may now be feen by 

 thofe who vifit the Chinefe empire. A ring placed round the neck 

 hinders the bird from fwallowing ; its natural appetite joins with 

 the will of its mafter, and it inftantly dives at the word of com- 

 mand -, when, unable to gorge down the fijh it has taken, it re- 

 turns to the keeper, who fecures it for him : fometimes, if the fifo 

 be too big for one to manage, two will act in concert, one taking 

 it by the head and the other by the tail. 



The training up Corvorants for fi/hing, we are told, was once in 

 practice in England, tying a leather thong round the neck inftead 



* ArB. Zool. — Lawfon'j Carolina. f Cook's lajl Voy. vol. ii. p. 297. 



J " II reflemble affez un Corbeau, mais le cou eft fort long, & le bee long, 

 " crochu, & pointu : e'eft une efpece de Cormorant qu'ils dreffent a la peche du 

 " poiiTon, a peu pres comme on dreffe les chiens a prendre des lievres." Du Halt/. 

 Chin. vol. ii. p. 142. pi. in p. 162. — The figures of the birds in the plate are 

 not very well expreffed, but they feem rather to be thofe of the Cor-vorant than 

 any other. — OJleck mentions, that the Chinefe call it Lou-foo. According to his 

 opinion, the prints give it greatly the appearance of the Man of War ; but 

 though he was at fome pains to procure the bird itfelf, he could not : he ob- 

 ferves, that this way of fiihing is ufed at Macao, and that it is very expenfive ; 

 its price is fettled, and is faid to amount very often to fifty tale : the fifherman 

 pays a certain fum of money as an annual contribution. Foj. ii. p. 35. 



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