MANKS PUFFIN. 
tender remembrance of their ancient country,) 
flocked to the shore when the Greeks disem- 
barked, and seemed, by their tender accents, to 
express their melancholy regret. But their in- 
tercsting mythology," concludes BufFon, the 
fidlions of which, too much censured by per- 
sons of cold temper, diffused to the apprehen- 
sion of sensible minds so much grace, life, and 
charms in nature, appears really to allude, in 
this instance, to a point in natural history, and 
to have been imagined from the moanmg voic 
of these birds." 
