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The picturesque feature, also, of the rookery hen-, is Ilic appearance ol' the la\\ny, yellowish 

 bodies of several thousand sea-lions,* which lay ill and among the fur seals at the several points 

 designated on the sketeh map, though never Car from the water. Sea-Lion Neck, a little tongue of 

 low basaltic jutting, is the principal comer where the natives take these animals from when they 

 eaptnre them in the tall for their hides and sinews. 



Cross. (>] Saint John's, Hill, which rises near the lake, to a height of <!<) or 7(1 feet, and quite 

 a landmark in itself, is a perfect cone of sand entirely covered with a luxuriant growth of Eli/mus. 

 It is growing constantly higher by the fresh sand deposit brought by winds, and its retention by the 

 annually rising grasses. 



At this point, it will be noticed, there is a salt-house, and here is the killing ground for North- 

 east Point, where nineteen or twenty thousand "bolluschickie'' are disposed of for their skins every 

 season, their carcasses being spread out on the sand dunes between the foot of Cross Hill and 

 Webster's house ; a squad of sea lets live there during the three or four weeks that they are engaged 

 in the work. The "hollnschickie" are driven from the large hauling grounds on the sand Hats 

 immediately adjacent to the killing grounds, being obtained without the slightest difficulty. 



There also was the sire of a village, once the largest one on this island ere its transfer to the 

 sole control and charge of the old Ifussian-American Company, ten years after its discovery in 

 1786. The ancient cemetery and the turf lines of the decayed barraboras are still plainly visible. 



NORTH EAST POINT 



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I'll, sea-lions bi> < >! on no one of the rookni.-s ;it this ishiucl, the insignificant number that I noticed on Seevit- 

 eliic Kammin r\< rpicd. A I S. Mil ]i \vcM I Vint. b,,v\ ,-% <T. I fun ml a small sea -lion rookery, but then- are no breeding fur- 

 seals then-. A handful of r.iimi'liiinnx used to hired on Otter Wand, but do not no\v MUM- it lias been necessary to 

 sl.-itiou (Joveniim-nl agents tlinv. I'm- thr apinvhcn.sion ol' fur-seal pirates, during tbo sealing season. 



