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to our sympathies — almost into communion with human 



ideas. 



leach's petrel. 



About five .miles beyond Flat Island, and farthest out at 

 sea of all the islands in this locality, is Green Island, as it 

 is called in the vicinity, or Grass Island, as set down on the 



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maps and charts. Comprising about twenty acres, it is sur- 

 rounded by bluffs of rock, these being, no doubt, the out- 

 croppings of its solid foundation. The surface is a beauti- 

 ful bright green — an oasis in this ocean desert. The soil is 

 a soft, brown, vegetable mould, appearing like bog-turf, 

 and showing that the position of the island was once very 

 different — a swamp, perhaps, in the midst of the sea. A 

 number of islands along the coast of the province have this 

 appearance, and there are several at different points bearing 

 the name — Green Island. Having secured a fine little sailing 



