. Among the water-fowl : observation, adventure, photography : a popular narrative account of the water-fowl as found in the northern and middle states and lower Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains . ng it up or down. The Keeperand his son rowed. As we neared the rocks, theGannets, far wilder than on the main rock wherethey have become accustomed to the presence ofman, began to tiy o^ in clouds, and I took a coupleof snapshots, which, owing to the plunging of theboat, were not very successful. The rock is in twoparts. The main part, occupying hardly more thanan acre of space, begins with a few
. Among the water-fowl : observation, adventure, photography : a popular narrative account of the water-fowl as found in the northern and middle states and lower Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains . ng it up or down. The Keeperand his son rowed. As we neared the rocks, theGannets, far wilder than on the main rock wherethey have become accustomed to the presence ofman, began to tiy o^ in clouds, and I took a coupleof snapshots, which, owing to the plunging of theboat, were not very successful. The rock is in twoparts. The main part, occupying hardly more thanan acre of space, begins with a few low ledges, thenrises up precipitous about forty feet. The top wascovered white with Gannets on their nests, as wasthe other part, a most interesting formation. Thisis called the Pillar, or Pinnacle, consisting ofa perpendicular column of rock rising sheer out ofthe water some sixty or seventy feet, and, I shouldthink, absolutely unclimbable. There is no beach to these rocks, and the sea,comparatively calm as it was, rushed upon theledges with considerable violence. Awaiting a goodchance, we ran our boat on to a fiat rock andjumped out. First we both took pictures of the 73 f >■ -(■ 3. 74 Modern Cliff-Dwellers Pinnacle, that stood about a hundred yards off, withshallow water intervening. Then we undertook toscale the clift. Kittiwakes had nests here and thereon the sides, a tew of them within reach hy a littleclimbing. Portunately there were ledges and pro-jections not ±ar apart. We let young Bourqueclimb up first, using my shoulders for a ladder, andhad him pull usup. Thus wereached ledgeafter ledge, untilwe were safelylanded on the we found toconsist of bare flatrock, which wascovered with nestsof the Gannetsabout a yard apartall over the were plesof sea-weed, more or less bulky, and most of them were in the day we learned the cause. I selected one of the nests to photograph, a goodlarge one with an egg in it and a sizable fish laidup o
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