The ocean / By P. H. Gosse.

  • Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810-1888.
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[pref. 1845]
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Credit: The ocean / By P. H. Gosse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    birds, when they collect and throw down their booty to the boat. Sometimes the party remains several days on the expedition, sleeping in the crannies and caverns. This mode is attended with peculiar hazard; for, as a man often hangs suspended merely from the hands of a single comrade, it occasionally happens, that the latter cannot sustain his weight, and thus lets him fall, or is himself drawn over the rock, and shares in his companion’s miserable death. GUILLEMOT AND GANNET. The object of these daring adventures, which bring to mind the words of Shakspeare, “ Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire—dreadful trade 1 ” is chiefly the Guillemot (XJria Troile), a bird some-