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numerable troops of them. Standing firm 
and ereO: on their legs, thefe animals never 
deranged themfelves in the leaft to let us pafs ; 
they more particularly furrounded the mau- 
foleum, and feemed as if determined to pre- 
vent us from approaching it. All the environs 
were entirely befet v^ith them. Nature had 
done more for the plain tomb of the poor 
Danifli captain, than what the imagination 
of poets goes far in fearch of, and what the 
chifel of our artifts executes at a great ex- 
pence : the hideous owl, hov/ever well fculp- 
tured in our churches, has not half fo dead 
and melancholy an air as the penguin. The 
mournful cries of this animal, mixed vjiili 
thofe of the fea-calf, impreffed on my mind - 
a kind of gloom, which difpofed me very 
much for the tender fenfations of fadnefs and 
grief. I fixed my eyes for fome time on this 
laft afylum of an unfortunate traveller, and 
honoured his manes with the tribute of a 
figh. This monument, ereded no doubt in 
hafte, prefented nothing remarkable : it was 
of an oblong form, three feet in height ; and 
conftrudted, without any mortar, of pieces of 
the rock which furrounds the ifland. I ihouid 
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