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in harsh relief everywhere in forbidding prominence gives an air of desolate and deathlike impressiveness to the scene which seems to weigh down upon ones imagination like some wild and repellant dream-scene. The presence of numerous waterfowl in the bay only appear to add to the wildness of the scene for their black forms dancing on the ripples or gliding by on rapid wings with voiceless motion is all in keeping with the rest and one might make these the evil spirits of this solitude while the snow white gulls at a distance would pass for gentler spirits lost in this voiceless wild upon the stillness of which the impatient puffing of the little steamer broke like an ill timed interruption. Here & there at the base of the cliffs a small patch of green showed where a little soil had lodged & furnished the plants a chance to gain a foothold.
As we passed along many Mormon corniculata were seen & a few M. cirrhata when we first started Phaleris psittacula was also quite common & several which I caught were found gorged to the bill, with small crustaceans which abound here.
Marbled Guillemots were also quite common along shore with Pigeon Guillemots-- A number of violet green Cormorants and Larus glaucus & many Kittiwakes (Kotzbuis)
After about 3 hours steaming we approached the head of the bay which we found sloped