NORTHERN PENGUIN. 
improper sentiment, to conclude our descrip- 
tion of the Northern Penguin. 
All the species," says he, are deprived 
of the power of flying: they walk with diffi- 
culty, and carry the body erc6l and perpendi- 
cular. Their legs are entirely behind; and so 
short, that the bird can only take very small 
steps. The wings are merely appendices^ in • 
the place where the true wings should be at- 
tached; and their only use is, to balance the 
bird in it's tottering pace. They come on 
shore, to pass the night, and to breed: the im- 
possibility of their flying, and the difficulty 
of their running, expose them to the mercy of 
those who chance to land in their retreats, 
and they are run down. The.defedl; of their 
stru£lure, which incapacitates them from 
avoiding their enemies, has occasioned them to 
be regarded as stupid creatures, inattentive 
even to self-preservation. They are never 
found in places inhabited, and they never can: 
for, being incapable of resistance or escape, 
they must quickly disappear, wherever de- 
stru61:ive Man shall fix his abode ; who per- 
mits nothing to escape, that he can extirpate." 
