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Plate 90. Dampier, in paffing between Brafil and the Cape of Good Hope, 
fays, “ We pafled by a dead Whale, and faw (as I may fay) Millions of Sea-Fowls 
44 about the Carcafs, (and as far round about it as we could fee) fome feeding, and 
44 the reft flying about, or fitting on the Water, waiting to take their Turns. We 
45 fir ft difcovered the Whale by the Fowls, for indeed I never faw fo many 
44 Fowls at once in my Life before, their Numbers being inconceivably great : 
44 They were of divers Sorts, in Bignefs, Shape and Colour. Some were almoft as 
54 big as Geefe, of a grey Colour, with white Breads, and with fuch Bills, Wings 
44 and Tails. Some were Pintado-Birds, (our White and Black-fpotted Peteril) as 
44 big as Ducks, and fpeckled Black and White. Some were Shear-waters, fome 
44 Peterils . We faw of thefe Birds, efpecially the Pintado-Birds , all the Sea over,. 
44 from about two hundred Leagues diftant from the Coaft of Brafil , to within much 
44 the fame Diftance of New Holland. The Pintado is a Southern Bird, keeping 
44 within the Southern femperate Zone , for I never faw any of them much to the 
14 Northward of thirty Degrees South: Tfife Pintado is as big as a Duck, but appears 
44 as it flies, about the Size of a tame Pigeon.” Dampier proceeds to defcribe 
the Pintado and the little Peteril, which feem to me to be the fame Birds I have 
delcribed in P. 90. I think he hath alfo defcribed the Great black Peteril , figured 
by me in Plate 8^9. See Dampier s Voyage to New Holland , P.96, 97. He fays, all 
thefe Sorts of Birds fly many of them together, nothigh, but almoft fweeping th& 
Water. 
Plate 93. Pelicans -are large flat-footed Water-Fowls, almoft as big as 
Geefe, and their Feathers in Colour like them: They have fhort Legs, long Necks, 
and their Bills are about two Inches broad, and feventeen or eighteen Inches long : 
The Fore-Part of their Neck or Bread is bare of Feathers,, but covered with a foft,, 
fmooth, yet loofe Skin, like that about the Necks of Turkies. This Skin is of the 
Colour of their Feathers, mixed with a dark and light Grey, fo exadlly interwoven 
that it appears very beautiful. They are very heavy Birds, and feldom fly far, or 
very high from the Water : They commonly fit on Rocks at fome Diftance from 
the Shore, where they may look about them: They feem to be very melancholy 
Fowls, by their perching all alone : They fit as if they were Helping, holding their 
Pleads upright, and refting the Ends of their Bills on their Bread? : They are better 
Meat than Boobies , or Men of War Birds. See Dampier' s Voyaged 0 the Bay of Cam- 
peachy, P. 7o. The fame Author alfo faw Pelicans in New Holland. See his Voyage 
to NewHolland, P. 123. 
Plate 103. Th e, Quick-hatch^ or Woherene , being near of Kin to the Bear , 
I have here inferred an Obfervation of Mr. John Bartram , which difcovers one of 
the Methods the Bears in North America take to provide themfelves with Sufte- 
nance; and it is likely the Qpick-hatch may have the fame Sagacity. Pie fays, in 
paffing through a difmal Wildernefs, we obferved an old Log which the Bears had 
lately turned to get at the Snails, Beetles and Grubs that were on the under Side of 
it. I fhall here alfo mention an Obfervation Mr. Bartram made, of the Treat- 
ment Dogs meet with amongft the fix Nations to the Weft of Penflvania, Pie fays, 
the 
