which there are ſuch Numbers,Vaſt Numbers of Edder or Down-Fowls and Ducks. that ſometimes ſailing along, you find the whole Sea covered with them; and when they take their Flight, you would think there was no End of them, eſpecially in Winter-Time, when in large Flocks, to the Number of many Thouſands, they hover about our Colony, Morning and Evening; in the Evening ſtanding in for the Bay, and in the Morning turning out to Sea again. They fly ſo near the Shore, that you may from thence ſhoot them at Pleaſure. In the Spring they retire towards the Sea; for upon the Iſland that lies adjacent to the Coaſt, they lay their Eggs, and hatch their young ones, which arrive in June and July.
The Natives watch them in this Seaſon to rob them of their Eggs and their young ones. The fine down Feathers, which is the beſt Part of this Bird, ſo much valued by others, the Natives make nothing of, leaving them in the Neſts.
Three Sorts of Ducks.There are three Sorts of Ducks. The firſt have a broad Bill, like our tame Duck,