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PENGUIN. 
gravity. From these accounts we may conclude, 
that they are not possessed of too much nervous 
irritability. 
The flesh of the penguin is rank and fishy : ne- 
vertheless our sailors say that it is pretty good eat- 
ing : this however is no criterion, as to sailors in a 
long voyage every thing that has life seems good to 
be eaten ; and it has been very properly remarked, 
that we often find them recommending those ani- 
mals as dainties, which they themselves would 
spurn at after a course of good living. Nothing is 
more common in their journals than such accounts 
as these : This day we shot a fox, pretty good 
eating ; this day we shot a heron, pretty good eat- 
ing ; and this day we killed a turtle, which they 
rank with the heron and the fox, as pretty good 
eating. 
END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. 
R . Taylor and Co. Printers , 38, Shoe Lane. 
