14 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
down upon the ground, its noife is almoft loud 
enough to make one deaf. 
Sometimes it will venture to attack a boy of 
ten years of age, and often carries off a fheep or’ 
a deer, and flies away with it in its talons; and it 
will take little children, if it can find them, to 
feed its young ones. ; " 
The Condor is found in the Andes, in South 
Ametica; the Andes are the higheft mountains 
in the world. ‘ 
The claws of the Vulture are not fo hooked 
as thofe of the Eagle, becaufe they walk more 
upon the ground, ‘Their eyes are not at all funk 
in their heads. ‘They build their nefts amongtt 
rocks, very difficult to come at, and lay two or 
three eggs. 
_ They fmell very difagreeably, and a very offen- 
five humour is conftantly wate from tae nol- 
trils of fome of them. 
Under the feathers there is a fine down; and at. 
Grand Cairo their fkins are fold and made into. 
very comfortable dreffes, 
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