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I searched every inch of the cliff-face for a foothold, but there was nothing there big enough for anything bigger than a sea-lark. I could never have clambered down the cliff, even had I the necessary nerve, which I certainly had not.
This is the rock-pipit the "sea-lark" of Browning's verse. But that is a summer song. It is not only when the cliff "Sets his bones, To bask i' the sun," but in the short winter days, that the sea-lark keeps constant to the fringe of ocean.
We dined at the castle to-day, and met the officers of a new English brig, the Sea-Lark, among whom I was happy to recognize Lieutenant B , an acquaintance at Mahon, and a messmate of my friend C . All these officers are gallant fellows; and the commencement of our acquaintance promises to place them and ourselves on the most cordial terms.
Amongst an immense number of others are found many new reptiles, some of them adapted for fresh water; species of birds allied to the sea-lark, curlew, quail, buzzard, owl, and pelican; species allied to the dormouse and squirrel; also the opossum and racoon; and species allied to the genette, fox, and wolf.
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