BIRD ROCK 



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Bryon Island, its next neighbor in tlie Magdalen 

 group, to whicli it belongs. It is three hundred and 

 fifty yards long, from fifty to one hundred and forty 

 yards wide, and rises abruptly from the sea to a 

 height of from eighty to one hundred and forty feet. 

 Its outline, the nature of its base, sides, and summit 

 are well indicated by the accompanying pictures. 



80. Bird Eock from tlie southwest ; distant about one half a mile. 



Three quarters of a mile northeast of Bird Rock, 

 or Great Bird, as it is more specifically called, lies 

 Little Bird, a red sandstone rock which at high tide, 

 or from a distance, appears as two. The shallow 

 water between Great and Little Birds suggests the 



