(6 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
thrown up dead on the thore, by. thoufands, quite 
dean and -ftarved. 
- They are not at the trouble ol wieldeg a col 
but lay each a fingle egg, on the ledges of the 
wocks,. 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 
than one at atime; and-though fo many lay.clofe 
to one another, yet each knows itsownegg. 
- 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.eges ; he puts 
them into a bafket, that is tied tova ftring, and 
_drawn up by the people who are at. the top of the 
rock, as often as it is filled. : 
- Sometimes they tie one end of the rope to a 
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, 
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