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vith a hook at one end: he fixes this hook in a 
cleft of the rock above, and draws himéelf UPy 
climbing with his hands along the pole; the men 
_ who are below in the boat, put the hooks of their 
poles againft his feet, or to his girdle, and help to 
 pufh him up. When he is got to a place where 
he can ftand firm, he lets down the rope, one 
end of which is faftened to himfelf, and fo helps 
to draw up another man, who is {upported in his 
turn by the poles of the men below. ‘Thus three 

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or four men get up, climbing, and helping one 
another, from fome parts of the rocks to others, 
But fometimes they fall down, and are killed ; 
and fometimes they pull one another down - ; and 
fometimes loofe ftones fall upon them, and crufh 
them. 
The Black-billed Auk is found on the Englifh 
aust and on the coaft of the Ifle of Candia, and 
in other parts of the Mediterranean fea. In the 
‘ay of Gibraltar, the water is very clear, to a 
‘great depth : it is curious to fee thefe birds, under 
water, darting after the fifh, as fwiftly almoft as 
though they were flying in the air, and turning 
after them fo quickly in every yee that 
their prey feldom can efcape. 
The Dufky Auk too is wonderfully active in 
the water, but very clumfy and ftupid on the fhore. 
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