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On perceiving the increased surprise of his 
guests, he informed them, that in the moun- 
tainous regions of that district the Eagles 
were accustomed to build their eyries 
amongst the almost inaccessible rocks, which 
can only be ascended with ladders and grap- 
pling irons. The peasants, however, when 
they had discovered a nest, raised a little hut 
at the foot of a rock, in which they screened 
themselves from the fury of the birds, when 
they convey provision to their young, which 
the male carefully nourishes for the space of 
three months, and the female continues the 
employment till the young are capable of 
quitting the eyry. While the young con- 
tinue in the eyry the parents ravage all the 
country, and conveyed to the nest capons, 
chickens, ducks, lambs, kids, pigs, &c. But 
that the fields and woods supplied them with 
the choicest game; for from thence they 
seized pheasants, partridges, woodcocks, wild 
ducks, hares, and young fawns. When 
therefore the shepherds perceived that the 
Eagles had left the eyry, they planted their 
ladders, climbed the rocks, and carried off 
what the Eagles had conveyed to their young, 
