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with a hook at one end: he fixes this hook in a 
cleft of the rock above, and draws himfelf up, 
climbing with his hands along the pole; the men 
| who are below in the boat, put the hooks of their 
poles againtt 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 fupported in his 
turn by the poles of the men below. Thus three 
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 {tones fall upon — and erulhy= | 
oe them. 
The Black-billed Auk is found on the Englifh | 
coalt, and on the coaft of the Ifle of Candia, and 
in other parts of the Mediterranean fea. In ‘the 
2 bay of Gibraltar, the water is very clear, to a 
great depth : it is curious to fee thefe birds, under 
ee water, darting after the fifh, as fwiftly almoft as 
though they were fiying in the air, and turning : 
after them fo quickly in every direction, that 
their prey feldom can-efcape. 
Pa he Dufky Auk too is wonderfully a@ive in 
a the water, but very clumfy: and “oar on. the fhore. 
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