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most sequestered situations, and commonly 
places it between two rocks. The same 
nest, it is said, serves this Eagle for the whole 
course of its life. Button observes, that " It 
is indeed a work laborious enough not to be 
repeated, and solid enough to last for a con- 
siderable time. It is constructed nearly like 
a floor with small sticks, five or six feet long, 
supported at the extremities, and crossed 
with pliant branches, covered with several 
layers of rushes and heath : the nest is seve- 
ral feet broad, and so firm as not only to 
support the male, the female, and the young, 
but to bear the weight of a large quantity of 
provisions. It is not covered above, but is 
sheltered by the projection of the upper part 
of the rock. In the middle of this structure, 
the female deposits her eggs, which seldom 
exceed two or three." 
The same author observes, " It is more 
uncommon, perhaps, to see two pairs of 
Eagles in the same tract of the mountains, 
than two families of Lions in the same part 
of the forest. They separate from each 
other at such wide intervals, as to afford 
ample range for subsistence, and esteem the 
