PtTFFIN, OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT. 
figured and described by almost all the authors 
who have wrote on birds." He remarks, that 
they are all frequently brought from Green- 
land by our Whale-fishers, who know the 
Puffin by the name of the Greenland Parrot ; 
and, that he believes they breed on all the con- 
venient rocky shores in the northern parts of 
Europe. 
*^ In the beginning of June 1761," says 
Edwards, I had the curiosity to visit the 
Needles, in the Isle of Wigh-t ; wheie I spent 
.a Vv'cek in seeing what was curious in that part 
of the island, and went ofF to sea several times 
under the stupendous cliffs where these birds 
breed. Many strangers of our southern coun- 
ties visit these parts ^^early on the same ac- 
count. When we enter some of our great 
Cathedrals, their greatness and solemn gloomi- 
ness strike us with a pleasing, reverential, kind 
of chilling horror ; and, when we view the 
mag^nificent Palaces of sovereigrn Princes, we 
are struck with the beauty, harmony, and re- 
gularity, and a striking sense of the riches, 
power, art, and fine taste, that could form such 
terrestrial Keavens : but, O ! when I had 
launched 
