BIRD ROCKS. “re 
square acres of ground upon its summit. Here for the last 
few years a lighthouse has been established, and the men 
stationed here, when they found that we wished to land, 
lowered a small platform by the aid of a crane and windlass 
for our accommodation. 
By the aid of a little careful packing, we were enabled to 
place everything, including ourselves, upon this substitute for 
an elevator. The box or tray in which we were seated was 
about four feet square, with six-inch sides. When we were 
all snugly packed away, it is unnecessary to state that we 
were somewhat crowded; but just then a faint voice came 
to us with a questioning “All right?” and I had hardly waved 
my hand in answer, when we began to ascend. As we 
moved slowly up within a few feet of the cliff, we were 
enabled to form some idea of the immense quantities of birds 
which breed here. Gannets, Puffins, Razor-billed Auks, and 
Guillemots, together with an occasional Kittawake Gull, were 
sitting upon the ledges in long rows, some upon eggs, but 
most of them were mixed up with young ones of all shades 
and sizes, from those nearly able to fly to the downy little 
fellows apparently just from the shell. Around, above, below, 
