(99?) 
Another fort that only comes in Summer Milk white, 
with red Legs very lovely to behold. 
The Biriern is there left than in England, and does 
not make that founding Noife that ever I heard. 
Curlews fomething lefs than our Englijh, tho* bigger 
than a Wimbrel. 
The Sandpiper much refembling the Englijh. 
The Snipe, two forts, one reiembling ours, the o 
ther much lefs. 
The Tewits are fmaller than the Englijh, and have 
no long Toppins, but juft like a young one that be- 
gins to flie. 
There are great numbers of wild Swans. 
Wild-geefe and Brent-greefe alJ Winter in mighty 
flocks, Wild-ducks innumerable, Teale, Wigeon, Sheld- 
rakes, Virginia-Didapers, the Black-diver, &c r 
In my return home for England, May 1686. off of 
the Banks of New found- Land, when we were according 
to account, a Hundred Leagues from the Shoar, we 
(aw feveral prodigious floating Iflands of the Ice, no 
lefs to our wonder than Terror, for they were very 
dangerous : I got the Matter to fail one day as nigh one 
of them as we fecurely durft, which we judged to be 
full a League in length, and was higher above Water 
than the top of our Main-mad ; the Snow drove to and 
fro upon it as upon a large Plane. There was a great 
Flock of fmall Black-divers, that were not much big- 
ger than a Feldifire, came to us a little before, but all 
of them then left and betook themfelves to this Ifland 
of Ice. They dived the conflantly'fl, and the longeft at 
a time of any Bird that I ever faw. We faw, as I re- 
member, nigh Thirty of thefe Iflands of Ice. Captain 
Rider being fome few days later in his Paflage, and 
bearing more to the fibre, told me, he faw many more 
of thefe Iflands of Ice, and forae much larger. 
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