
qo THE NATURAL HISTORY 
comes in November, and ftays until the Septem. 
ber following: it lays one large white and brittle : 
egg, and hatches it in the middle of June.. There 
' is no bird fo ufeful to the iflanders, becaufe it 
eR them with oil for their lamps, and down 
for their beds, and food for their tables. ‘The oil : 
is taken for a medicine, and it is good for bruifes, 
Fulmars can fpout it from their bills to a great 
diftance ;, and they are very apt to do fo, into 
the faces of thofe who try to take them. For 
this reafon, they endeavour to catch the Fulmar _ 
fuddenly, and before he is aware, by the neck, to 
fave the oil, which is of fo much ufe. Ful- 
mars are larger than common Sea Gulls. They 
follow the Whale-fifhers in great flocks; and 
when a Whale is caught, they fettle upon it, and 
pick out large lumps of fat, even whilft he is alive, 
Whales have a great deal of fat, or blubber, under 
their fkins ; and fo have the Sea-lions: for in 
thofe northern feas, where they are found, the 
water is extremely cold; and the fat which they 
are covered with, prevents them from feeling the 
cold. The Whale-fifhers often know that a _ 
Whale is near, by the flock of Fulmars that are 
flying about him, 
The pouch of the under jaw of the Fulmar is 
formed into a bladder ; thefe bladders are fixed to 
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