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#6 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
thrown up dead on the fhore, by thoufands, quite 
Jean and ftarved. 
They are not at the trouble of making a nef, 
“put lay each a fingle egg, on the ledges of the 
socks. Numbers of them lay clofe together, 
If this egg be taken away, they will lay another, 
and fo on to five; but they never fit on more 
shan one at atime; and though fo many lay clofe 
to one another, yet each knows its own egg, 
The egg is fo fixed to the bare rock, by a 
cement, that it does not roll off. Many poor 
: people live upon their eggs; and to get them, 
a man faftens a rope round his waift, which is 
afterwards brought between his legs, fo that he 
fits upon it. In this manner fix or feven people, 
who hold the other end of the rope, let him down _ 
the rock, where he finds the birds eggs ;_ he puts 
. them into a bafket, that is tied to a ftring, and 
drawn up by the people who are at the top of the _ 
yock, as often as it is filled. | 
“Sometimes they tie one end of the rope toa | 
tree; and the man who fits at the other end 
_ {wings himfelf from one part of the rock to ano- 
ther, pufhing himfelf away by his feet. But in 
Norway they are much more fkilful ; for there, 
feveral men go under the cliffs in a boat; one : 
has a rope tied round him, and a pole in his hand, 
with 

