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_ devouring birds, and deftroy large quantities of 
_ fifh: they will often fwallowa Salmon of four or . 
five pounds weight ; but as they cannot take it~ 
all at once into the ftomach, the tail will fre- 
~ quently hang out at the mouth. The bird in this 
--fituation cannot well fly away, and fo is galily 
- deftroyed, - 
- The Albatroffes are often taken with a s hook, 
baited with a fith,. 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 fithing-nets from: 
finking. The bones of the Albatrofs‘are: made 
into needle-cafes and tobacco-pipes. They: breed — 
in Falkland’s Mlands, 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, 
that the whites of their egos 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 oe fotame, that they will 
fuffer themfelves to be pufhed off the neft, whilft 
* the eggs are taken from under them. Their 
- Oggs are. -often deftroyed bya Hawk, who darts — 
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