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anyone with any real sympathy for bird life could 

 sit there for hours together, and all the time be filled 

 with a sense of awe and admiration at the variety 

 and vastness of the life and animation of this gigantic 

 sea-cliff. Now there is suddenly heard an alarm 

 among a group of birds two hundred feet or more 



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away, and at once a veritable cloud of them rise from 

 the cliff, the sound of their wings as they first beat 

 the air resembling a great muffled shout whooa ! 

 Another and another party also leave their ledges, 

 until the sea in an area of about three hundred feet 

 square is almost hidden for the time. Round and 

 round this great flock of excited birds circles, some 



