An account of several late voyages and discoveries

86 The Fourth Pm of tbe Voyage and fometimes when they are alfo, for they are not able to reftfi them. Thcy love their young ones fo well, that 1her will he killed before they wiJl leave chern, :anJ will defend them as a Hen doth her Chickem f wiming about them) at other times rhey~; 1 very hard to be Cbot; foras foon as they ftt 1 fire~ they are immediate\y t.nder Water, or fl away. They fly in great flocks, with pointe Wings like Swallows, and move their Win much in their flight. One can hardly know 1~ young L"mb, from the old oncs, at rhe fir fight, if you do not take exaét notice of th · .Bills; for the upper part turns befide the und part, ar the point, and the undermofi befi thc uppermofr, as you fee in the Crofs Bíll, y not fo much in thefe; and it is commonly do in the 15th, 16th, to the ~oth. year of th · Age. The old one9 are full of Flefb, bur it' very dry and tough, and therefore unpleafa to eat. They boíl them like the Pigeons, and fe off thc f at when they boíl, then they fry rh in Batter. l did not fee them upon the 1 but abundance of them upon the Mountairn They go waddlin¡? from one fide to the othe like the diving Pigeons. 1 have feen ma Thoufonds of them together in the Dt1nif1 H bonr, on the Mountains, on that fide wheret Eaíl: and Northern Winds could not blow ha or not full y npon them, ( and fo do ali ot. Birds chufe fuch places on the Mountains 1 cheir Habitations) wbere the Herbs do grow. B