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Their voice is strong, harsh and loud, and 
the ear of the mariner is often pierced with 
their shrill cries, screamed forth in min- 
gled discord with the roaring of the 
waves. Grating as their cries are, these birds 
are often hailed as his only pilot, while he 
is tossed to and fro, amidst solitary rocks 
and isles, inhabited only by the sea-fowl. 
Although it is not certainly known to 
what places some of these birds retire to 
breed, yet it is ascertained that the great- 
er part of them hatch aind rear their 
young on the rockey promontories and in- 
lets of the sea, and on the innumerable 
little isles with which the extensive coast 
of Norway is studded from its southern ex- 
tremity, the Lindesness, or Naze, to the 
North Cape. 
The bleak shores and isles of Lapland, 
Siberia, Spitzbergin, Nova Zembla, Ice- 
land, Greenland, &c. with the vast swamps 
of the Arctic Zone, are also enlivened in 
their seasons by swarms of Sea-fowl, which 
range the intervening open parts of the 
seas to the shoreless frozen ocean. There 
a barrier is put to further enquiry, beyond 
