AMERICAN PELICAN. 
nama, and the Bay of Cam peachy, as far as 
Louisiana, and the country adjoining to Hud- 
son's Bay, These birds are seen, also, on the 
inhabited isles and inlets near St. Domingo ; 
and are very numerous on tliose small verdant 
isles which lie in the vicinity of Guadaloupe,, 
and which seem to be adapted for the retreats of 
different species of winged inhabitants. One 
of these has even been called, by the French, 
risle aux Grand-Gosiers, or the Island of 
Pelicans. The name Grand-Gosier, or Great 
Gullet, having been given to the Pelican, by 
tlie French inhabitants of the West India 
islands, on account of the large sac beneath 
it's bill ; as the Alpine inhabitants of Savoy 
are called Goitres, from the similar swelling 
in their throats, to which these mountaineers 
arc subje61:. 
The Pelican has been employed, by priests, 
and by poets, as an eniblem of maternal ten- 
derness ; lacerating it's breast, to nourish it's 
young with the flowing blood. This tale, 
which the ancient Fgyptians related of the 
vulture, is thought to have been first applied to 
the Pelican by St. Augustine, and St. Jerome. 
But 
