BRITISH BIRDS. 
399 
Supreme Difpofer of events, with a mind prepared 
for the arduous talk, he is let down by a rope, either 
held fall by his comrades, or fixed into the ground 
on the fummit, with his fignal cord, his pole-net, 
his pole-hook, &c. and thus equipped, he is enabled, 
in his progrefs, either to Hop, to afcend or defcend, 
as he fees occafion. Sometimes by fwinging him- 
felf from one ledge to another, with the help of 
his hook, he mounts upwards, and clambers from 
place to place ; and, at other opportunities, by 
fpringing backwards, he can dart himfelf into the 
hollow caverns of the projeding rock, which he 
commonly finds well Itored with the obje^s of his 
purfuit, whence the plunder, chiefly confifting of 
the full-grown young birds, is drawn up to the top, 
or tofled down to the boat at the bottom, according 
to the fituation of concurring circumftances of time 
and place. In thefe hollows he takes his reft, and 
fometimes remains during the night, efpecially when 
they happen to be at fuch vaft and ftupendous 
heights. To others of lefs magnitude the fowlers 
commonly climb from the bottom, with the help of 
their hooked poles only, by which they afllft, and 
pufli or pull up each other from hold to hold, and 
in this manner traverfe the whole front of the 
frightful fear. To a feeling mind the very fight of 
this hazardous employment, in whatever way it is 
purfued, is painful ; for, indeed, it often happens 
that thefe adventurous poor men, in this life- taking 
