NATURAL HISTORY. 
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Nature apprifes every one of its approach, 
by cauling it to make fo great a noife with its 
wings, as almoft to occalion cleafnefs. The 
body is as large as that of a flieep, and tht flefli 
as difagreeable as carrion. Thus man lofes 
no food from the providential fcarcity of this 
terrific and devouring creature. Forefts, not 
affording room for its flight, are never infeft- 
cd with its depredations; they, therefore, 
dwell moflly in mountains, vifiting the 
fliores at night, when rain or tcmpefl; drive 
their finney prey thither for flieltcr. 
They are chiefly to be found in the defects 
ofPaehomac, where men feldom venture to 
travel ; thofe wild regions being alone fuflici- 
ent to infpire the mind with a fecret horror, 
affording no otlier mufic but the roaring of 
wild beafts, and the hifling of ferpents ; while 
the adjacent mountains are rendered equally 
terrible from the vifits of this deftrudtive 
bird. 
I'hisbird is thought,, by naturalifls, to be 
the fame as the rock, found in Arabia, the 
Tarnalfar, in the Eaft Indies, and the large 
.vulture, in Senegal. 
