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but we are unable from any jioint of observation to appreciate it, inas- 

 much as we can not stand high enough to overlook it, unless we ascend 

 Polavina Sopka, and then the distances, with the perspective fore- 

 shortening, destroj^ the effect. 



The rookery itself occupies only a small portion of the seal-visited 

 area at this spot. It is placed at the southern termination and gentle 

 sloping of the long i-each of bluff wall, which is the only cliff between 

 Lukannon and Novastoshnah. It presents itself to the eye, however. 



in a very peculiar manner and with great scenic effect when the 

 observer views it from the extreme point of its mural elevation. 

 Viewed from thence, nearly a mile to the northeast, it rises as a front 

 of bicolored lava wall, high above the sea that is breaking at its base, 

 and is covered with the infinite detail of massed seals in reiDroduction. 

 At first sight one wonders how they got there. No passages whatever 

 can be seen, down or u]). A further survey, however, discloses the 

 common occiirrence of rain-water runs between surf -beaten crevices, 



