. Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska. eefs,rough and kelp-grown, which navigators prudently avoid. This rookery of the Reef proper has 4,016 feet of sea margin, with anaverage depth of 150. feet, making ground for 301,000 breeding sealsand their young, Gorbotch rookery has 3,660 feet of sea margin, withan average depth of 100 feet, making ground for 183,000 breeding sealsand their young; an aggregate for this great Reef rookery of 484,000breeding seals and their young. Heavy as this enumeration is, yet theaggregate only makes the Reef rookery third in importance, compare
. Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska. eefs,rough and kelp-grown, which navigators prudently avoid. This rookery of the Reef proper has 4,016 feet of sea margin, with anaverage depth of 150. feet, making ground for 301,000 breeding sealsand their young, Gorbotch rookery has 3,660 feet of sea margin, withan average depth of 100 feet, making ground for 183,000 breeding sealsand their young; an aggregate for this great Reef rookery of 484,000breeding seals and their young. Heavy as this enumeration is, yet theaggregate only makes the Reef rookery third in importance, comparedwith the others which we are yet to describe. Lagoon rookery,—We now pass from the Reef up to the village,where one naturally would not expect to find breeding seals withinless than a pistol shot from the natives houses; but it is a fact, never-theless, for on looking at the sketch map of the Lagoon rookery here-with presented, it will be noticed that I have located a little gatheringof breeding seals right under the village hill to the westward of that. place called Nah Speel. This is in itself an insignificant rookery andnever has been a large one, though it is one of the oldest on the is only interesting, however, superficially so, on account of its posi-tion, and the fact that through every day of the season half the popu-lation of the entire village go and come to the summit of the bluff,which overhangs it, where they peer down for hours at a time uponthe methods and evolutions of the kautickie below, the seals them-selves looking up with intelligent appreciation of the fact that, thoughthey are in the hands of man, yet he is wise enough not to disturbthem there as they rest. If at Nah Speel, or that point rounding into the village cove, therewere any suitable ground for a rookery to grow upon or sj)read over,the seals would doubtless have been there long ago. There are, how-ever, no such natural advantages offered them; what there is theyhave availed themselv
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