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they cannot reft but on the water, which is al- 

 ways pretty rough. Thofe I have feen were 

 continually on the wing ; they appear not, biit 

 in tempeftuous weather, near (hips, or land; 



The Eider Cock. 



The Eider Cock is brown when he is young, 

 but when he is old he groweth almoft white, and 

 is called Eider-Blink. 



From this fowl is gathered Eider-down^ which 

 the Eider plucks from his breaft and layeth in 

 its neft about its eggs when it hatcheth them ; 

 and when the young ones are come out and fled 

 away with their dam, this down is taken up from the 

 neft, being then full of mofs and ftraw, of which 

 it is cleanfed, and dried. The down which is 

 plucked off at other times from the Eider is 

 good for nothing, for it is fat, and rotteth. 



The Summer-Duck, 



Mr. Catefl^y has defcribed this bird in his hif- 

 tory of Carolina, vol. I. page 97. 



" They 



