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of life that the eye perceive but the sound of the seals on Kelarie rookery comes plainly to the ear -
Back of [[strikethrough]] this roo [[/strikethrough]] the bare dull brown ground of the rookery the grass is low and green but it merges soon into the straw brown of the dead [[underlined]] Elymus [[/underlined]]. All the distant hills & valleys are brown with here & there green dots [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] and patches -
A fox trots out on [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] one quite bare, [[strikethrough]] pro [[/strikethrough]] sulphury-brown projecting ridges of the bluff & disappears again. A roseate finch flies overhead - A bee hums by- Beyond the sulphury brown ridge a mass of scoria forms the top of the bluffs brick- red in color. The lichens on the curious pinnacle rock beyond are bright yellow-brown - & a cap of brown-green [[underlined]] Elymus [[/underlined]] rests on it like a thatched roof. 

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Image shows text as being upside down, probably b/c the notebook has been turned over & True is writing on other side. I have transcribed it as imaged.