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horfe when he fetches breath ; from whence the Bird has the 

 name; as well as that its motion on the water refembles the 

 trotting of that animal, with heaving, and violent pufhing ; fo 

 that when they appear in large flocks, they make the Tea roar 

 even in ftill weather. ■ On land no body has ever feen them and 

 they do not come nearer than half a fcore f miles ; fo that they 

 are only feen by the fifhermen that go put to fifh for turbut on 

 the main ; though in fhallow water thefe Birds come about the 

 boats in clutters, to get the intrails that are thrown over. If 

 they flrike at any of them with a flick or a ftone, that they fall 

 or are flunn'd, then the others gather about the Bird that is hurt, 

 and never leave off pecking him till he revives: but that he 

 fhould revive, as pretended, though quite mangled, is a mere 

 fifherman's fable. 

 . I have never found fo much as one of this Hav-Hefl among 

 other Birds, in any other ' writers ; and therefore the drawing 

 fent me by Mr. Hans Strom, chaplain to the parifh of Borgens 

 on Sundmoer, is certainly the more worthy to be introduced : 

 but I have this to obferve on the occafion, that the- thick and 

 round head in the drawing is too much like an Owl, and fhould, 

 by a more exact drawing, rather approach the 'likenefs of a 

 cuckow's head, but broader. 



The Hav-Sule, a large Sea-bird, which fomewhat refembles a 

 Goofe : the head and neck are rather like thofe of a Stork, ex- 

 cepting that the bill is fhorter and thicker, and is yellowifh ; thd 

 legs are long ; a-crofs the back and wings the colour is a light 

 blue ; the breaffc and long neck are white; towards the head it is 

 green, mix'd with black, and on the top there is a red comb: 

 the tail and wings are both diftingtiifhed by fome white feathery 

 at the ends, and are large in. proportion to the body : when the 

 wings are fpread from the end of one to the other they meafure 

 fix feet. This Bird is eatable either roafled or falted : the Scots 

 call it Gentelman. It is a Bird of pafTage., or of the wandering 

 unfettled fort. It is Hot feen in this country before the latter end 

 of January, or beginning of February, when the herring-fifhing 

 begins, and then it ferves for a fign to give notice of the feafon. 

 They do not come nearer land than within half a mile ; thus 

 the farmer obferves when the fifh feek the narrow and fhallow 

 waters. At Eafter thefe Birds are not feen any more, therefore 

 I cannot fay much about their breeding. They are fo flupid, 

 that by laying a few herrings upon a floating board, they may 

 be inticed to the boat, and killed with the oar, 



t Sixty Englifh Miles, 



The 



Hav-Sule. 



