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the mouth of the Tees for the purpose of shooting wild fowl, 

 when making his way to the Tees mouth in his boat, saw two 

 young Seals on the sands. On nearing them he noticed the old 

 Seal go to them and roll them over towards the water. Golightly 

 secured them and took them to his house, at Stockton, where 

 he kept them for some time in his garden, and fed them on 

 milk, on which they throve and became quite tame. Golightly 

 was in the habit of taking them to the quay-side, and turning 

 them into the river, where they disported themselves to the 

 great delight of the spectators. 



Of recent occurrences of Seals in the Tees and district, I 

 have the following records, noted myself, and previously I can 

 remember many being exhibited at Middlesbrough, by fisher- 

 men and others : — One shot in Billingham Creek, on Christmas 

 Day, 1 880 ; this Seal was 3 feet 4 inches long, and, of course,, 

 immature. In the same winter one was shot at Redcar, and 

 another was seen on the rocks, at Redcar, previous to this, date 

 not noted. On the 24th August, 1881, a local newspaper 

 reported that a school of Seals were discovered in the cut at the 

 Middlesbrough Dock entrance. One of the animals made its 

 way into the dock. Efforts were made to capture it, but with- 

 out success. It is supposed they had chased a shoal of salmon 

 up the river. I afterwards conversed with two jDersons who 

 saw these Seals ; they both put the number at two. It was in 

 the afternoon of the day named when they where seen. They 

 were pursued by boats, and dived whenever the boats came 

 near them. They were eventually lost some distance down the 

 river. At the beginning of the following November a large 

 Seal was observed for several days to frequent the beach opposite 

 the ironworks at Eston, a place noted for eels, to which Seals 

 are said to be very partial. It was observed through a glass 

 from Eston Jetty. About the 15th of January, 1883, one was 

 seen in the Tees, and shot at several times. At the beginning 

 of the following February one was captured in the Tees, 

 opposite Eston Jetty, measuring 3 feet in length. On the 28th 

 July, in the same year, one was exhibited alive in the Middles- 

 brough Market, which had been taken in the river. In 1884, 

 I have b^en informed, one was seen and shot at several times 

 on the Eurham side of the Tees mouth ; this Avas in autumn. 

 and on October 25th, 1885, a Seal was captured in the Tees 

 near Eston Jetty. This was a young female ; it was 

 pursued for some distance, and was at last shot. This I 

 examined, and made a coloured sketch of It was 3 ft. 10 ins. long, 

 and beautifully mottled on the back with black and yellowish- 



