Wanderings and excursions in North Wales . essels had occurred; and * The {julls, at the breeding season, so numerous on the island and adjacent coast,disperse themselves for the rest of the year ; and are never seen congregated in greatnumbers, except when attracted by shoals of herrings or some similar cause ; but itis positively asserted by light-keepers, as a very extraordinary fact, that they all instinc-tively return to the South Stack during the same might, on or about the lOth ofFebruary; and retire, with the exception of those that, having been robbed on the main,had resorted to the i
Wanderings and excursions in North Wales . essels had occurred; and * The {julls, at the breeding season, so numerous on the island and adjacent coast,disperse themselves for the rest of the year ; and are never seen congregated in greatnumbers, except when attracted by shoals of herrings or some similar cause ; but itis positively asserted by light-keepers, as a very extraordinary fact, that they all instinc-tively return to the South Stack during the same might, on or about the lOth ofFebruary; and retire, with the exception of those that, having been robbed on the main,had resorted to the island to renew the labours of incubation, about the night of the12th of August. The keepers state that, in the middle of the former night, they arcwarned of their arrival by a great noise, as it were a mutual greeting and cheering;adding, that they look to their return as that of so many old ac(iuaintances, after a longabsence, announcing the Winter to be over, and Spring aiii)roaching —Rev. EdwardStunlfi/^s Familiar History of Birds. N. WANDERINGS THROUGH NORTH WALES. 183 mentioned an almost miraculous escape of a ship, which in astorm actually drove between two projecting ledges or shelves ofrock, scarcely broad enough to admit a vessel without sufferinginjury. Now there is little dread of such an occurrence; for inaddition to the excellent method of the revolving lights hereadopted, the worthy captain has so placed another in a lowerrange of the rock as to preclude all danger, and which has beenof the greatest utility. From a like motive, which seems to haveactuated him through life, he favours the location and increase ofthe sea-birds, persuaded that their scream is known to the mariner,during thick and foggy weather, as a token of being near the shore. I approached Beaumaris by the fine road which the publicowe to the munificence of the late Lord Bulkeley. A successionof noble prospects, constantly varying as I advanced along theshore, with the distant murmur of the wave
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