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packed erosion throiigli the sphagnum and across the rocky plateaux — 

 in fact, a regular seal road, which has been used b}'- the drivers and vic- 

 tims during the last eighty or ninety years. The fashion on St. George 

 in this matter of driving seals is quite different from that on St. 

 Paul. To get their maximum quota of 25,000 annually it is neces- 

 sary for the natives to visit every morning the hauling grounds of 

 each one of these four rookeries on the north shore and bring what 

 they may find back -with them for the day. 



Little Eastern rookery, i— From the village to the eastward, 

 about half a mile again, is a little eastern rookery, which lies on a 



NORTH ROOKERY 



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low bluffy slope and is not a piece of ground admitting of much 

 more expansion. It has superficial area for the reception of nearly 

 13,000 breeding seals and their young. 



The Great Eastern.— This is the last rookery that we find on St. 

 George. It is an imitation, in miniature, of Tolstoi on St. Paul, with 

 the exception of there being no parade ground in the rear of any 

 character whatever. It is from the summU of the cliffs, overlooking 

 the narrow ribbon of breeding seals right under them that I have 



1 The site of this breeding ground and that of the marine slope of the killing 

 grounds to the east of the village on this island is where sea lions held exclusive 

 possession prior to their driving off by the Russians— so the natives afBrni. The 

 only place on St. George now where the Ei(vietopias breeds is that one indicated 

 on the general chart, between Garden Cove and Tolstoi Mees. 



