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Rh which there are uch Numbers, that ometimes ailing along, you find the whole Sea covered with them; and when they take their Flight, you would think there was no End of them, epecially in when in large Flocks, to the Number of many Thouands, they hover about our Colony, Morning and Evening; in the Evening tanding in for the Bay, and in the Morning turning out to Sea again. They fly o near the Shore, that you may from thence hoot them at Pleaure. In the Spring they retire towards the Sea; for upon the Iland that lies adjacent to the Coat, they lay their Eggs, and hatch their young ones, which arrive in June and July.

The Natives watch them in this Seaon to rob them of their Eggs and their young ones. The fine down Feathers, which is the bet Part of this Bird, o much valued by others, the Natives make nothing of, leaving them in the Nets.

There are three Sorts of Ducks. The firt have a broad Bill, like our tame Duck, 3