
; of the bill. A naked blue {kin furrounds the eye, 

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and from the corner of the bill to the back of the 
_ chead, there is a narrow ftripe of black fkin, with- 
-out-feathers. It has a pouch, large enough to 
contain five or fix herrings. . 
It fits only on oneege; if that be-taken, it 
will lay another, and if that be taken, a-third. 
The neft is large, and made of fhavings, or fea- 
sweed. Gannets are found on an ifland in the 
Firth of Clyde, in Scotland; in the Orkney 
 iflands; andinmany iflands on the Englith coat ; 
wand on the Bafs. ifland, which is in the Firth of 
Forth, in Scotland. 
In that ifland, which‘is {carcely a oe roms 
do many of thefe and other fea-birds build every 
_ year, that-it is difficult. to walk without treading 
-apon their eggs or the young birds; and the : 
number of the old birds is fo. great, that they 
darken the air likeacleud. If you ‘ftand on the 
| S stock, and look down upon.the:fea, it feems cover- 
ed to a great diftance with birds of feveral kinds, 
a Swimming about, or feeking for their prey. 
If you fail.round the ifland, every cliff of the 
rock is covered with birds, in fuch numbers, that | 
they cannot be counted; and they make fuch.a 
— moife, that thofe who freak. there, can fcarcely be 
heard, 
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