1918] 



The Ottawa Naturalist 



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patches through fields bright with daisies, meadows 

 purple with iris and dotted with cattle, trimmed 

 balsam and spruce groves between which cow pads 

 wind like paths in a Japanese garden. We climb 

 steeper hills, skirt rock shoulders, finally plunge into 



testing at the intrusion so near their nesting ledges, 

 perch on the tree tops and hoarsely scream as we 

 pass. Finally, the last declivity is surmounted and 

 open meadow at the head of the Gannet rookeries 

 IS reached. 



General view of cliffs; birds leaving ledges. 



the heavier evergreen woods and follow along the At first nothing is seen but the green sward kept 



wooded cliff verge, the sea showing between the to an emerald hue by the damp gulf air and the 



tangle and tree trunks at the right and the dark, sharp line where it drops off against the blue sea 



mossy woods, damp with sea mists, mounting the rise or sky. A low murmur of hoarse cries rises up 



on the left. At one place the Herring Gulls, pro- from innumerable throats hidden over the crest and 



