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home is among their clefts. The nests were thickest 
on the shelves some fifty yards above the water; but 
both lumme and tridactyl gulls filled the entire air 
with glimmering specks, cawing and screeching with 
an incessant clamor. 
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To soften the scene, a natural bridge opened on 
our right hand into a little valley cove, green with 
mosses, and beyond and above it, cold and white, the 
glacier. 
This glacier was about seven miles across at its 
