308 NATURALIST'S CABINET. 



Extracts from Jacobson. 



that they both fall down and are killed. In this 

 manner some do fall every year." 



Mr. Peter Clanson, in his Description of Nor- 

 way, states, that there was anciently a law in 

 that country, that whosoever climbed so on the 

 cliffs, that he fell down and died, if the body was 

 found, before burial, his next kinsman should go 

 the same way ; but if he durst not, or could not 

 do it, the dead body was not then to be buried 

 in sanctified earth, as the person was too full of 

 temerity, and his own destroyer. 



" When the fowlers," continues Jacobson, 

 " get, in the manner aforesaid, to the birds 

 within the cliffs, where people seldom come, the 

 birds are so tame that they take them with their 

 hands; for they will not leave their young. But 

 when they are wild they cast a net, with which 

 they are provided, over them, and entangle them 

 therein. In the mean time, there lieth a boat 

 beneath in the sea, wherein they cast the birds 

 killed: and in this manner they can, in a short 

 time, fill a boat with fowl. When it is pretty 

 fair weather, and there is good fowling, the 

 fowlers stay in the cliffs seven or eight days toge- 

 ther; for there are here and there holes in the 

 rocks, where they can safely rest ; and they have 

 meat let down to them with a line from the top 

 of the mountain. In the mean time some go 

 every day to them, to fetch home what they 

 have taken. 



