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fish-iiawk, or osprey. 
• Suddenly lie is seen to elieek his course, as if 
)■ hy a pai’ticular object, rvhicli lie seems to survey 
(j ''(■few' moments u ith such steadiness, that he appears 
k in air, llappinp' his u inifs. This ohject, hou'ever, 
ijj shandoiis, or rather the tish he had in his eye has 
U'*l'l>eared, and he is iu;ain seen sailing arouud as 
(tj'*’*'. Now his attention is again arrested, and he 
ifli^'‘nds with great rapidity ; hiit ere he reaches the 
j shoots oft on another course, as it ashaivnal that 
),v®'^nnd victim had escaped him. He, now sails at a 
hedght above the surface, and by a zig-zag descent, 
jjj. ^'itliout seeming to di}> his feet in the water, seizes 
"’Ineb, after carrying a short distance, ho probably 
La''*, or yields up to tbe bald eagle, and again ascends, 
J spiral circles, to the bigher regions of the air, 
be glides about in all the ease and niajesty of Ins 
At once, from this sublime aerial height, he 
like a pen)endicnlar torrent, plunging into the 
o( " ith a loud rushing sound, and with the certainty 
bis* f'lle. In a few moments he emerges, bearing in 
liis l*rey, wlut;li he iilv\’iiys carries 
^"'■‘‘most, and, having risen a few feet above the 
dif shakes himself as a water spaniel would do, and 
L^ls his heavy and laborious course directly I'or the 
fp • If the n iud blow hard, and his nest licin tbe (piarter 
'vh" Vl'rnce it, conies, it is amusing to observe with 
iji *l.i'nlgmcnt and exertion he beats to windward, not 
SCp/'irr'ct line, that is, iyi the wind's eye, but making 
a., "'^l successive tacks to gain his jmrpose. Tins ivill 
tb*,*:;''' the more striking, u hen we consider the size ot 
bit ***' ' " Inch be sometimes bears along. A shad was 
Mit V' *”** " lish-hawk near (h eat Egg Harbour, on 
Hie ' ' I'ud begun to regale himsell, and bad already 
sij, considerable iiortion of it ; the remainder weighed 
iL.PC'nids. Another fish-han k was passing Mr Beas- 
same place, with a larj>;e floiiudor in his 
it ** ^' hieh stnn»‘*'‘led aiul shook him so, that he dropt 
sei-^L''" shore."''The tiounder w'lis picked up, and 
file l'; " I'ole family for dinner. It is singular that 
k never descends to pick up a fish n hich he 
