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which, the prying eye of man must not 
look, and there, his imagination only must 
take the view, to supply the place of rea- 
lity. In these forlorn regions of unknown 
space, this reservoir of frost and snow, 
where firm fields of ice, the accumulations 
of centuries of winters, glazed in Alpine 
heights above heights, surround the pole, 
and concentre the multiplied rigours of 
extreme cold ; even here, so far as human 
intelligence has been able to penetrate, 
there appears to subsist an abundance of 
sea-fowl. 
In the Hebrides and Feroe Islands vast 
numbers of these birds are known to breed, 
and as their young, together with their 
eggs, form the principal support of the In- 
habitants of the latter islands, it may not 
be amiss in this place to give a descrip- 
tion of the method made use of to procure 
them. We shall give it in the words of 
the Revd. G. Landt, extracted from his 
History of the Feroe Islands. After gi- 
ving an account by which some of the spe- 
cies are taken and which in some measure 
resembles a method made use of in this 
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