MopERN CLIFF-DWELLERS 
Petrels. Arrived May 6 
< Common May 6 
<< Began to lay May 29 
Saturday, the 23rd of June, dawned clear and 
calm. After breakfast we started out on a trip to 
North Bird Rock, as the sea was smooth, and all 
conditions favourable. The other men lowered me, 
in charge of the cameras and various equipments, in 
the crate, and then climbed down the long ladder. 
There was a dory up on one of the lower ledges, 
out of the reach of any ordinary sea. ‘They manage 
this very nicely by attaching the hoisting apparatus, 
thus easily swinging it up or down. The Keeper 
and his son rowed. As we neared the rocks, the 
Gannets, far wilder than on the main rock where 
they have become accustomed to the presence of 
man, began to fly off in clouds, and I took a couple 
of snapshots, which, owing to the plunging of the 
boat, were not very successful. The rock is in two 
parts. [he main part, occupying hardly more than 
an acre of s space, begins with a few low ledges, then 
rises up precipitous Ebout forty feet) “he tep: was 
covered white with Gannets on their nests, as was 
the other part, a most interesting formation. This 
isvealled@thte “Pillar, or “Pinnacle, ‘consisting of 
a perpendicular column of rock rising sheer out of 
the water some sixty or seventy feet, and, I should 
think, absolutely unclimbable. 
There is no beach to these rocks, and the sea, 
comparatively calm as it was, rushed upon the 
ledges with considerable violence. Awaiting a good 
enanee. we ran Our poatsonm to: .a flat sock: and 
jumped out. First we both took pictures of the 
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