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with a Chare of the fpoll. According to Willughby, this mode of 

 taking fifh was praftifed formerly in England : the Corvorants were 

 inftrufted to dive into the water, and after laying the captive fifti at 

 the feet of his mafter, perch upon his arm. The beft writers give 

 Kttle credit to this account, or confider it as a rare inftance, at leaft, 

 of the docile difpofuion of the Corvorant;. A leather thong was 

 fattened round the throat of the bird, which anfwered the fame purv 

 pofe as the ring put round their neck by the Chinefe» 



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