. Guide leaflet. our boats as many as we pleased, for in less than an hour wemight have filled thirty such boats of them. We named them the islandsof the Margaulx. 64 Three centuries later, Audubon, whose energy in exploration no ornithologist has ever surpassed, visited this colony and was duly im-pressed with its wonders, though the freshening wind prevented himfrom landing on the rock itself. Then evil days fell upon this bird metropolis; fishermen commenced to visit it to obtain birds and eggs for food and birds for bail ; a light-house was erected and, within ten years, the Gannet populat
. Guide leaflet. our boats as many as we pleased, for in less than an hour wemight have filled thirty such boats of them. We named them the islandsof the Margaulx. 64 Three centuries later, Audubon, whose energy in exploration no ornithologist has ever surpassed, visited this colony and was duly im-pressed with its wonders, though the freshening wind prevented himfrom landing on the rock itself. Then evil days fell upon this bird metropolis; fishermen commenced to visit it to obtain birds and eggs for food and birds for bail ; a light-house was erected and, within ten years, the Gannet population of100,000, which, seen from a distance, had caused Audubon to thinkthat this rock was covered with snow, was swept from the top of the , though still one of the ornithological wonders of our At Iant it-coast, the colony is but a shadow of its former self. Fortunately, inMarch, 1919, the Rock was made a bird sanctuary by the CanadianParliament and under protection its feathered population is BIRD ROCK FROM THE SOUTHWESTIKatance ;il«>ut one-half mileI rom Bird Studies with ,i Camera, by permianon f \> Appleton A
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