BIRD ROCK 153 
Bryon Island, its next neighbor in the Magdalen 
group, to which 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 Rock trom the 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 
