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ofthe bill. A naked blue fkin furrounds the eye, 
and from the corner of the bill to the back of the 
head, there is a narrow ftripe of black fkin, with 
out feathers. It has a pouch, large enough to 
contain five or fix herrings, 
‘It fits only on one egg; if that be taken, it 
will lay another, and if that be taken, a third, 
The neft is large, and made of fhavings, or fea< 
weed. Gannets are found on an ifland in the 
Firth of Clyde, in Scotland; in the Orkney | 
iflands ; andin many iflands on the Englifh coatt ; 
and on the Bafs ifland, which is in the Firth of 
Forth, in Scotland. ) 
In that ifland, which is fcaréely a mile round, 
fo many of thefe and other fea-birds build every 
year, that it is difficult to walk without treading 
upon their eggs or the young birds; and the 
number of the old birds is fo great, that they 
darken the air like a cloud. If you ftand on the 
tock, and look down upon the fea, it feems covers 
ed to a great diftance with birds of feveral kinds. 
{wimming about, or feeking for their prey. 
If you fail round the ifland, every cliff of the 
tock is covered with birds, in fuch numbers, that 
they cannot be counted ; and they make fuch a 
noife, that thofe who {peak there, can fcarcely be 
3 heard, 
The 

