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tal ftreams and broken rippling waters iffuing 

 forth pretty high in the rock. The ftrata of 

 chalk, ftone, flints, &c. divided in fome parts, 

 on an almoft plain furface, for the depth of fix 

 hundred feet, the heighth of the rock in many- 

 places affords great entertainment to a curious 

 and inquifitive mind. It is ftrange to fee Iheep 

 and lambs feeding near the water's edge in the 

 lower part of this cliff, and not eafily conceivable 

 how they get thither without being precipitated 

 into the deep, but they have the power of tread- 

 ing furely in places inacceffible to man. Though 

 the birds are not counted eatable, yet many of 

 them are deilroyed through wantonnefs. When 

 ^ gun is difcharged from fea under the rock, 

 they fly off in fuch amazing numbers as to 

 darken the furface of the fea under them. Great 

 numbers are always feen fifhing in the fea, others 

 fitting in the cliffs, and many ajways paffing and 

 jrepaffing over your boat. The fifhermen make 

 baits of their flefh to catch lobfters, crabs, &:c. 

 The ignorant on this part of the ifland fuppofe 

 that thefe birds are found in no part of the world, 

 but at the Needles. The face of this ftupendous 

 rock extends about four miles, and very nearly, 



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