Show JD IDEAL L PLACE PUCE FOR SOLITUDE Gird ird Island Illand In Gulf of St St. St Lawrence One of Worlds World's Most Desolate y i Spots Bird Island most northerly of the 44 Ya Magdalen Islands holds the worlds world record for wrecks The whole group group In the Gulf of St St. Lawrence Is t exceedIngly exceed exceed- dangerous but Bird Island nd si stands ds' ds first More Mare M re like ilke a n huge rock than ant an Island Its walls wal s rise grim and gray Inthe Inthe In Inthe the path of ot the mariner The hI island and r- r has baa no DO beach or only coast only a steep Ir-I Ir ze regular lar cl cliff ft rising abruptly from th the tho water Wlter The top Is jg a barren plateau o of about five acres The principal inhabitants are birds Gulls Galls gannets and come como I in thousands to nest and andrear rear their young The Tho roar of their thousands of wings whigs drowns owns the tho noise of ot the waters The Th Thel 1 Indians Indians' say that they are the souls of shipwrecked sailors Th The human human tenants of ot the plateau tire are ro the lighthouse keeper and his wife doomed to solitary to-solitary solitary existence except about once or twice a year when a Ii ship 1 brings rings provisions Sometimes perhaps c In a about out every three or f four ur years year an on an enterprising naturalist comes to t study the bird life Ufe tin on the Island Ships can approach Bird Is and only In the c calmest weather The slIght est st ripple ripple and the craft keeps a rei respectful re- re i distance The Is isi i reach reached by a rope rop and windlass The hardiest mountain climber climet would heal heal- c tate before attempting to scale its rough gray walls The keepers of toe light have been singularly unfortunate The first went j ri r Insane and had to be kept confined by byLls his wife and assistant until the proP pro- pro vIsion riston boat arrived The second was 1 P borne torne away by i 11 floating piece of lc Ice Icer r F. F when seal In the early spring His Bis wife maintained the lighthouse I alone until b Mlp came tr from m a neighboring neighboring neigh neigh- boring island island- |