Show IDEAL PLACE FOR SOLITUDE UDE bird island in gulf of st lawrance Law Lawr renoa anoe one of worlds most desolate spots bird island most northerly of tho the magdalen islands holds tho the vr world sil record for wrecks tho whole group in tho the gulf of st lawrence Is exceed angly dangerous but bird island standal stands first moro like a huge rock than aw island its walls rise grim and gray in id the path of the mariner the island has no beach or coast only a steep irregular 1 ree ular cliff rising abruptly from tb the I 1 water the top Is a barren plateau 3 kofl about five acres the principal inhabitants jire are birds I 1 gulls gannets garnets and murre come coma ini la thousands to nest and rear their young the roar of their thousands of wings drowns tho the noise of the untera th tha indians say that they are the souls of shipwrecked sailors the human tenants of tho the plateau plate aai oro are the lighthouse keeper and his wife doomed to solitary existence excepts about once or twice a year when a ship brings provisions sometimes perhaps 1 in about every three or four years av an enterprising naturalist comes to the bird life on the island ships can approach bird island only in the calmest weather the slight I est ripple and the craft keeps a respectful ful distance dis fiance tho the lighthouse Is 13 reached by a rope and windlass tho the hardiest handiest har diest mountain climber would hesitate before attempting to scalo scale its rough gray walls the keepers of the light aught have been singularly unfortunate the first went insane and had to be kept confined by his wife find assistant until the provision boat arrived the second was borne away by a floating piece of aco when seal hunt IngIn the early spring ins his wife maintained the lighthouse alone until help came from a neighboring island |