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two first continue on our shores the whole year. 
The Gannet disperses itself all round the seas — 
of Great Britain, in pursuit of the Herring 
and Pilchard, and even as far as the Tagus to 
prey on the Sardina. 
But of the numerous: species of fowl here 
enumerated, it may be observed how very few 
entrust themselves to us in the breeding sea- 
son; and what a distant flight they make 
to perform the first great dictate of nature. 
There)seems to be scarcely any but what we 
have traced to Lapland, a country of lakes, 
rivers, swamps and alps,* covered with thick 
and gloomy forests, that afford shelter during 
summer to these fowls, which in winter disperse 
over the greatest part of Hurope. In those 
arctic regions, by reason of the thickness of the 
woods, the ground remains moist and pene- 
trable to the Woodcocks, and other slender bill- 
ed fowl: and for the web-footed birds, f the 
water affords /arv@ innumerable of the tor- 
* Flora Lapponica Lectori in Proleg. 
+ A disciple of Linneus, speaks thus of their food: Lappania, 
ubi victum ex Jarvis et pupis culicum, altrix paravit numinis 
munificentia. Amen. acad. IV. 1. 5. M. de Maupertuis 
makes the same observation, Ce ruisseau nous conduisit a un lac 
si rempli de petits grains jaunatres de la grosseur du Mz/ que toute 
son eau en etoit teinte. Je pris ces grains pour la Chrysalide de 
quelque insecte, &c. CEuures de M. de Maupertuis, III, 116. 
