Show IDEAL PLACE FOR SOLITUDE Bird Island In Gulf of St. St Lawrence On Ono One of Worlds World's Most Moat Desolate d Spots Bird Ird island most moat northerly of ot the Ma Magdalen Islands Island holds the World worta-J record for wrecks Th The whole group groups In the Gulf Gult of St St. Lawrence Is exceed dangerous but Bird Island stands stands- first More like a n huge rock than nn Island its walls rise grim and gray Inthe la In j the path of tho the mariner The Island has no beach or coast const only a steep IN Ir regular cliff cUt rising abruptly from th the water The top Is a barren plateau o about five acres The principal Inhabitants are birds Gulls gannets and cor omo I in thousands t to nest to-nest nest and rear their young The Tho roar of their thousands of wings wIng drowns the noise of the waters Th Tho Indians say that they are the souls of ot shipwrecked sailors Tho The human tenants of the plateau ore are ro the lighthouse keeper and his wife doomed to solitary existence except about once or twice a year when hen a ship brings provisions pro Sometimes perhaps In about every three or four years on an enterprising naturalist comes to study the bird life on the island Ships can approach Bird island only In the calmest weather The slight slight-i est st ripple and the craft keeps a respectful respectful respectful re re- re- re distance The lighthouse Is reached by a rope and windlass lass The hardiest mountain climber cUmber would w hesi hesitate hesitate hesi hesi- tate before attempting to scale Its rough gray walls The keepers of ot the light have be been n singularly unfortunate The first went Insane and had to be kept confined by his iris wife and assistant until the provision provision pro pro- vision boat arrived The second wee was borne away by a floating piece of ot Ice when seal hunting In the early spring Ills His wife maintained the ll lighthouse alone until help came caine from a neighboring neighboring neigh neigh- boring borIns Island |