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them build on the fide of Promontories, where they find great tufts of earth in fiat 

 places, and when they fly from their Nefts, theyfiift make them clean, fcraping. a]' 

 the dirt and old roots out of the holes, and putting frefii grafs in them again. Th 

 Lnndes that make their Nefts in the fields are taken as is faid above of the Skrabe : But 

 for fuch as are under thofe many ftones, they let run unto them fome little Dogs, trftt 

 are fo taught, as to bring out both Bird and Egg to their Mafters : But when the Birds 

 are flown, the men taketliem flying 5 which is done in this manner. They have alpng 

 pole, at the end of which there is a Hoop drawn over with a Net, whereof the 

 Mafhes arealmoftarealmoft as big as the quarries of a glafs-windpw, being like the 

 Net wherwith they take Shrimp in fome places, and this they call a Stang or Staff, 

 with this Staff the Fowler fitteth on the Cliff, or in the Ures among the great ftcmes, 

 where he knoweth moft Fowl to come, which they call flight-places, and when "trie 

 Lnnde cometh flying either from or to the Land, he lifts up the Staff and the Net 

 againft the Fowl, and when he hath got it into the Net, he turneth the Staff about, 

 that it may entangle it (elf the better therein : A man being fometimes able to take two 

 hundred Lmdes'm that manner in a very fhort time. 



The Lam-wipe, that is Hours Lomwia, and our Guillem or Skput, layeth her Eggs The Lum* 

 on the bare Points and Cliffs of high-R^cks and Promontories, there lying on thefe J?j^, e e ° r 

 Cliffs fome hundred Eggs, according as the place is large, but three fingers breadth 

 from one another, and when the Birds fly away the Eggs rowl often down into the 

 Sea. But laying but one Egg (he fitteth (freight thereon, and continueth fo a months 

 time, never ftirrjngfrom the place till her young one be hatcht 3 in the mean time the 

 Cock bringeth her to eat. They lay in this manner, fitting clofe one to another, 

 Bird by Bird all over the place, fo that the Cliff feemeth quite black , and the young 

 one being hatch'd,. (he remains yet three weeks with it, and then taketh it on her 

 back and carrieth it to Sea. When the Fowler cometh to that place, if there have 

 not often been men there before, it hapneth fometimes that the old will not leave their 

 young ones, and .therefore are taken with the hand as many as they are and killed j 

 but where they are grown wild by reafon of mens continual hunting after them, they 

 fly away, the young ones running together in a flock, and when the Hen cometh 

 again, (he feeks the fame place where (lie (ate before, and clacketh fo long till her 

 young one cometh to her, being very well able to difcern its own Dam, though they 

 be all fhaped alike, and when (he giveth her Young to eat (he putteth her head back \ 

 under her Wing, giving it fo to eat backwards. 



The Daw, that is Hours Alk& and our Aw\, (whence I guefsthe Author was The Daw or 

 miftaken in the name ) hatchethits young ones in holes and chinks of high Promon- Razor - blll » 

 tories, That Hour was not miftaken in the name of this Bird I conclude, becaufe it 

 is called by the very fame name, viz. Auk^ in the North of England 5 fo that it is 

 manifeft either our Northern men borrowed it of the Ferroefe, or the Ferroefe of 

 them, it being very unlikely that by chance they fhould impofethe fame name upon 

 it. But that ours borrowed this name of the Ferroefe feems to me more probable be- 

 caufe in other parts of England, farther diftant from the Ferroyer Iflands this Bird is 

 called by other names. And yet pofiibly it may be alfb called a Daw in thofe Iflands, 

 as either it or the Guillem is mCornwall. Why they (hould call it a Daw, I cannot ima- 

 gine unlets from its bignefs, an^ the colour of its back. 



It cannot beexpreft with what pains and danger they take thefe Birds in thofe high 

 and fteep Cliffs, whereof many are above two hundred fathoms high, there being 

 men apt by nature, and fit for that work, called Fowlers, who take them ufually in 

 two manners : For either they climb from below up into thefe hig^ Promontories,that 

 are as fteep as a wall, or they let themfelves down into them from above, with a thick, 

 ftrong, hemp-rope, when they climb from below, they have then a pole five or fix 

 Ells long, with an iron hook at the end, which they that are below in the Boat, or on 

 the Clift, faften unto the mans Girdle, or another Rope that the Fowler hath about 

 him, helping him thus up to the higheft place, where he can get footing : afterwards 

 they alfo help up another man, 8c when they are fo feveral comeup,every one with his 

 Fowling Staff in his hand, and the long Rope between them tied to each others wafte, 

 they climb fo as high as pofiibly they can 5 and where they find difficulty they help 

 each other up by thrufting one another under the breech with their Poles : And when 

 the firft hath taken footing, he draweth the other up to him by the Rope faftned to' 

 his wafte, and fo they proceed on till they come to the place where the Birds build 5 

 going then after them about the hill as they pleafe, and there being offiany dangerous 

 places to climb about, having bound themfelves at the Ropes; end, the one feeketh a 



convenient. 



