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PROCELL ARIA PELAGICA. 
the boat which was suspended by the ship’s stern, 
watching their movements, until it was so dark that 
the eye could no longer follow them, though I could 
still hear their low note of weet meet, as they approached 
near to the vessel below me. 
These birds are sometimes driven by violent storms 
to a considerable distance inland. One was shot some 
years ago on the river Schuylkill near Philadelphia; 
and Bewick mentions their being found in various 
quarters of the interior of England. From the nature 
of their food, their flesh is rank and disagreeable; 
though they sometimes become so fat, that, as Mr 
Pennant, on the authority of Brunnich, asserts, a the 
inhabitants of the Feroe Isles make them serve the 
purposes of a candle, by drawing a wick through the 
mouth and rump, which being lighted, the flame is fed 
by the fat and oil of the body.”* 
* British Zoology, vol. ii, p. 434. 
