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parent sea. In my opinion, tlie time is not far distant when that 

 estuary will be another inland lake of St. Paul, walled out from salt 

 water and freshened by rain and melting snow, as are the other pools, 

 lakes, and lakelets on the island. 



LuKANNON AND Keetavie ROOKERIES. — The next rookeries in order 

 can be found at Lukannon and Keetavie. Here is a joint blending 

 of two large breeding grounds, their continuity broken by a short 

 reach of sea wall right under and at the eastern foot of Lukannon Hill. 



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The appearance of these rookeries is like all the others, peculiar to 

 themselves. There is a rounded, swelling hill at the foot of Lukannon 

 Bay, which rises perhaps 100 or 170 feet from the sea abruptly at the 

 point, but swelling out, gently up from the sand dunes in Lukannon 

 Bay, to its summit at the northwest and south. The great rookery 

 rests upon the northern slope. Here is a beautiful adaptation of the 

 finest drainage, with a .profusion of those rocky nodules scattered 

 everywhere over it, upon which the females so delight in resting. 



