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The foil, as far as we went, confined entirely of 
high bare rocks, or looie gravel : amongft the latter, 
there dioots up, in the Fower places, many dwarf 
willows, and birch j in the higher ones fome fmall 
goofberry buflies; but thefe do not grow upright as 
in England, but creep along the gravel like the 
bramble brier. I faw befides thefe fome drawberries, 
many cranberries, and a few bilberries ; but none 
of thefe were yet ripe, except a few of the lad. I 
likewife faw fome few plants creeping amongft the 
mofs ; but none that 1 knew, except the dandelion 
and. (mall yarrow, 
I faw fome wild ducks and curlews, but could 
handle none of them ; we (hot a few birds, much 
about the fize, colour, and make of a woodcock : 
thefe they call here done-plover. I faw another bird, 
not much unlike a quail, which they call here the 
whale-bird, from its feeding on the offal of thofe 
fifh after the oil is boiled out of it. Belides thofe, 
1 faw many, and great variety, of the gull, or fea- 
mew kind ; and alfo of fmall birds, like our linnets, 
larks, &c. But the mod extraordinary bird that I have 
yet met with is (I know not for what reafons) called 
a man-of-war, and feeds on the excrements of other 
birds ; its way of coming at its food is alfo a little 
extraordinary ; he purfues the bird which he pitches 
on for his fupply, until fear makes it void what he 
wants, and fo foon as this happens, he catches the 
morfel in his mouth ; after which he leaves that bird 
and purfues another. 
I found here three very troublefome infedts. The 
fird is the mofchetto, too common in all parts of 
America, and too well known, to need defcribing 
here. 
