FRAGMENTS FROM THE SEASHORE. 



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of a lie:hthouse on the Bass 



had ruthlessly robbed every 



nest they could reach. 



These disappointing 



tidings were of 



very material 



consequence. I 



knew perfectly 



well that such 





nests as were not within 

 measure of the daring 

 of men whose heads 

 were inured to giddy heights would be useless 

 to me, hampered with photographic parapher- 

 nalia, so I straightway decided to cross over to the 

 west side of Scotland and tr}^ my luck on Ailsa 

 Craig, which is in every way a rougher and more 

 perilous rock stack upon which to study sea birds. 



