96 A summer's cruise to northern LABRADOR. 



Sunday the 1 2th was a red-letter day, spent about the 

 home of the gannet or solan-goose. At seven o'clock 

 in the morning — and what a glorious one it was : the 

 air soft and balmy, our good vessel's bows gently rising 

 and falling on the swell as if saluting in a measured, 

 dignified way the appearance of the god of day — at this 

 hour Entry Island, one of the Magdalens, was twelve 



THE LARGEST OF THE BIRD ROCKS, AS SEEN IN I864. 



(From a Photograph by Black.) 



miles off. It is a high mass of red sandstone with 

 abrupt sides and surmounted by two knolls ; near it 

 were several small islands, and a high grayish rock 

 deeply incised by narrow valleys plunging suddenly 

 down to the sea. 



At noon we approached the Bird Rocks, a group 

 of three islets, the largest 250 feet high and from a 



