330 ORAL ARGTTMENT OF HON. EDWARD J. PHELPS. 



When could these men have seen the act? Not wheu Bryant saw it, 

 for they were not there. Not before arrival of the cows, or the birth 

 would be early. Not after, or the birth would be late. 



The suggestion of pelagic coition is completely opposed to all the 

 dominating and well understood habits of the animal, and seems to 

 bave been virtually abandoned by the counsel for Great Britain. Very 

 wisely. Why was it ever brought forward? Only in the vain hope of 

 impinging in some small degree upon the powerful argument drawn 

 from the attachment of the seals to the American territory, by suggest- 

 ing that in some casual instances seals may have been at least begotten 

 outside of that territory. 



Even if true, it would not affect the question in the smallest degree. 



