of Falkland’s Iflands. 107 
one foot high, and dented at top. While the hen fits, the 
- male keeps conftantly on the wing, and morning and 
evening returns with food to her. As foon as thefe birds 
have hatched, and the young ones are able to leave their 
nefts, the jumping penguins repair to the nefts and oc- 
cupy them. The young albatrofs’s remain among them 
while the old ones go and feek food, with which they 
regularly return morning and evening. The feafon for 
every fpecies of birds, wild and tame, laying and hatch- 
ing is from September to December or January, and as 
all the eggs are very eatable, navigators touching at thefe 
iflands in thofe months will meet great refrefhment. In 
thofe three months we never meddled with the land geefe, 
as they were breeding and could not be good. 
The foil is in general boggy, barren, and rocky; but 
affords good pafturage in the vallies, and level fpots for 
fheep and goats, and would for cattle, which might be 
out all winter ; for that feafon is more remarkable for its 
mildnefs than in the fame degree of Northern latitude. 
The fummer is as remarkably cold, and both proceeds 
from the prevailing winds; in the winter the N. and 
N.E. winds are frequent, which brings warm, mild, 
moift weather. In the fummer, the S. and S.W. and S.E. 
prevails, which are cold, fharp, and blighting; but in ge- 
neral, throughout the year, there is very little difference 
in the weather, but moftly cold. The thermometer fear ce 
ever exceeds 64° in the warmeft days, and very feldom 
in winter is below the freezing point, though I have feen 
it 20 0 below freezing; but that did not continue long, 
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