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ere they (hall fee Land : Yet are they not to flatter themfelves 

 •wkh that hope tiil they fee them coming in great Companies 5 

 for there is one kind of them which many times flye above 

 two hundred leagues from Land. 



. The French have beftow'd on them the name of Fregates, 

 Frigots, becaufe of the continuance and lightnefs of their flight. 

 Their body is about the bignefs of a wild Drake's 5 but their 

 wings are very much larger, and they make their way through 

 the air with fuch fwiftnefs, that in a very (hort time they will 

 be out of fight : There are feveral kinds as to their feathers 5 

 for fome are all black, others all grey, fave only the belly and 

 wings, in which there are fome white feathers : They are ex- 

 cellent good at fifhing 3 and when they perceive a fifti lying 

 even with the water, they fail not, yet as it were only (porting 

 themfelves, to feifeit, and immediately devour it./ They have 

 a ftrange dexterity in taking the fying Fifies-^ for as foon as 

 they perceive that that delicate prey makes the water to rife 

 and bubble a little, and is juft upon the taking of its flight, to 

 avoid the cruel purfuits of its Sea-enemies, they place them- 

 felves fo directly on that fide on which they (hould make their 

 fally, that as foon as they are out of the water they receive 

 them into their Beaks, or Claws : So thefe innocent and unfor- 

 tunate fifties, to avoid the teeth of one enemy, many times fall 

 into the claws of another who gives them no better quarter. 



The Rocks which are in the Sea, and the little un-inhabited 

 Iflands are the places where thefe Birds make their abode and 

 their nefts: The meat of them is not muchefteem'd} but their 

 fat is carefully kept, it having been found by experience that it 

 helpeththe Palfey, and all forts of cold Gouts. 



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THe Birds which the French call Fauves , that is, Fat- 

 low, by reafon of the colour of their back, are white 

 under the belly : they are about the bignefs of the Tonic 

 d'eatt, but for the moft part fo lean that they are valued only 

 for their feathers : their feet are like thofe of Wild-Ducks, and 

 their beaks fharp as thofe of Woodcocks : they live on fmall 

 fifties, as the Frigotsdo, but they are the moft ftupid of any 

 Sea or Land-Fowl in the Iflands 3 for, whether it be that they 

 are foon weary of flying, or take the Ships for moving rocks, 

 as foon as they perceive any one, efpecially if it be neer night, 

 they immediately light in them, and fuffer themfelves to be 

 taken without any trouble. 



HERONS, 



