Show IDEAL adeal PLACE FOR SOLITUDE bird island in gulf of st law lawrence rence t one of worlds most desolate Des olata spots bird island most northerly of tho the Magl magdalen itlen wands islands holds the world woolda record for wrecks the whole group r in th the eGulf gulf of st lawrence Is exferd cee I 1 1 angly dan dangerous crous but bird island stands I 1 first birst more afore like alko a huge rock th than an an tiland island its walls nails rise grim and gray in the pat path of the mariner tho the island lias no beach or coast only a steep lr ir 1 regular cliff rising abruptly from the awater ater the top Is a barren ban en plateau of 0 about five acres the prin principal capal inhabitants are birds culls gannets garnets and burres come in thousands to nest and rear their young the roar of their thousands of wings drowns the voise noise of the w waters aters the indians say eay that they are tile the souls of shipwrecked sailors the human tenants of the plateau are the lighthouse keeper and his wife doomed to solitary existence except bout about once or a year when a ship brings provisions sometimes perhaps an about every three or four years an enterprising naturalist comes to study the bird life on the island ships can approach bird island only in the calmest weather the slight i est st ripple and the craft keeps a re ful distance tho tha lighthouse la Is reached by a rope and windlass the mountain e limber climber hest tate beffre attempting to scale its a ough gray walls the kc deepers e ars of the light have been singularly unfortunate the first went insane and had to be kept confined by its wife and assistant until the provision boat arrived the second was borne away by a floating piece of ICO ice when seal hunting in the early spring ills his wife maintained the lighthouse alone until help came from a neighboring island |