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HISTORY OF MAURITIUS. 
motions, to the inactivity of the mass, and render its lumpishness more disgusting, 
by forcing upon the observation that it is a bird. 
This bird is no longer found in the Isle of France, nor in those of Bourbon, 
Rodriguez, and Sechelles. It must now be placed among those species .which have 
existed, but have been destroyed by the facility with which they .were taken. No 
hope can now be entertained of find.ing them, but. on the shores of uninhabited 
islands. . , .. 
This is the bird which is named the Giant by le Guat, p. 144. 
