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_ devouring birds, and deftroy large quantities of 
fifh: they will often fwallow a Salmon of four ag- 
five pounds weight ; but as they cannot take it 
all at once into. the ftomach, -the tail. wil] fre= 
quently hang out at the mouth. ‘The bird in this 
fituation cannot well Ay away, and fo is eafily 
deftroyed. 

The Albatrofles are often taken with a HOOK, x... 
baited with a fifh, but not for food, becaufe. they - . 
are very bad tafted ; but for their inteftines, which : 
are blown up like bladders, and ufed as floats, to 
prevent the upper part of the hfhing-nets froni, - 
finking. ‘The bones of the Albatrofs are made 
into needle-cafes and tobacco-pipes. They breed : 
_ in Falkland’s Iflands, and in Patagonia, Patagonia 
is the moft fouthern part of the continent of South - 
America. Their nefts are made of earth, upon » 
the ground; they are round, about’a foot high, 
and with a cavity or hollow upon the top. The 
eggs are very good food. It is remarkable, 5 
that the whites of their eggs do not grow hard : 
with boiling. While.the female fits, the-male is. 
conftantly on the wing, and. fupplies her with - 
food ; and they are then fo tame, that they will : 
fuffer them{elves to be pufhed off the neft, whilit - 
the eggs are taken from under them. ‘Their 
eggs are often deftroyed by a Hawk, who darts 
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