The Bird Rock ( iroup. 



ten a speck rose on the horizon, which I was told was tin' Rock. 



We sailed well, the breeze increased fast, and we neared the 



object apace. At eleven I could distinguish its top plainly from 

 the deck, and thought it covered with snow to the depth of 



(From 



QANNETS ON NESTS. 

 Photographed from nature by F. If. Chapman. 

 Bird Studies with a Can. 



several feet; this appearance existed on every portion of the flat 

 projecting shelves. Godwin [the pilot] said, with the COOll 

 of a man who had visited this Rock for ten s 

 that what we w but Gannett. 1 rubbed my - 



