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entirely abandoned, as was stated in the last chapter 

 {see p. 311), viz., a rock adjacent to Great Manan Island, 

 and Perroquet Island, where Gannets bred up to 1887 as 

 well as the settlements on Perce Rock, and on a rock 

 near Yarmouth N.S., but it was owing entirely to man's 

 interference that they were forsaken. In the sixteenth 

 century there seem to have been Gannets on Funk Island. 

 {See p. 294.) 



