. Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska. number that I noticed on Seevitchie Kammin excepted. At Southwest Point,however, I found a small sea-lion rookery, l3ut there are no breeding fur sealsthere. A handful of Eumetopias used to breed on Otter Island, but do not now,since it has been necessary to station Government agents there, for the apprehen-sion of fur-seal pirates, during the sealing season. 92 ALASKA INDUSTRIES. to my view, and I am fairly rendered voiceless as I try to speak indefinition of the spectacle. In the first place, this slope from Sea LionNeck to the sum
. Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska. number that I noticed on Seevitchie Kammin excepted. At Southwest Point,however, I found a small sea-lion rookery, l3ut there are no breeding fur sealsthere. A handful of Eumetopias used to breed on Otter Island, but do not now,since it has been necessary to station Government agents there, for the apprehen-sion of fur-seal pirates, during the sealing season. 92 ALASKA INDUSTRIES. to my view, and I am fairly rendered voiceless as I try to speak indefinition of the spectacle. In the first place, this slope from Sea LionNeck to the summit of Hutchinsons Hill is a long mile, smooth andgradual from the sea to the hilltop; the pai-ade ground l3iug betweenis also nearly three-fourths of a mile in width, sheer and , upon that area before my eyes, this day and date of which I havespoken, were the forms of not less than three-fourths of a millionseals—pause a moment—think of the number—thr^e-fourthsof a mil-lion seals moving in one solid mass from sleep to frolicsome NORTH EAST POINT Scale: backward, forward, over, around, changing and interchanging theirhea%y squadrons, until the whole mind is so confused and charmed bythe vastness of mighty hosts that it refuses to analyze any , too, I remember that the day was one of exceeding beauty forthat region; it was a swift alternation over head of those characteris-tic rain fogs, between the succession of which the sun breaks out withtranscendent brilliancy through the mist}^ halos about it; this paradefield reflected the light like a mirror, and the seals, when thej bi-okeapart here and there for a moment, just enough to show its surface,seemed as though they walked upon the water. What a scene to put 9 Plate IX. Monograph—SEAL-ISLANDS.
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