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of Cross Hill. A short drive, and only 

 what he wants for each day's work, is 

 driven. He says that he could kill every 

 day three or four times as many as he 

 does it ho had the men here to handle 

 the skins. He takes nothing hut large 

 skins, nothing under 7 pounds. 



will have no hoUuschickic to kill to-mor- 

 row. Webster killed on the 15th 1,838 

 more. 



* * * The driving up here has radi- 

 cally altered for the worse since 1872-1874. 

 It is a mere raking and scraping now of 

 the rookery margins, no killable seals 

 anywhere else. The parade fields of this 

 once magnificent breeding ground are pos- 

 itively vacant to-day ; grass and flowers 

 growing and springing up everywhere all 

 over them. The holluschickie, as they 

 hauled to-day, did not occupy more space 

 than 500 feet by 50 feet in depth upon 

 all the entire extent of this immense habi- 

 tat of 1872! and the drive of 5,000 seals 

 which we saw on the killing grounds had 

 been scraped from seven different points 

 back of the rookery between the base of 

 Hutchinson's Hill and the southeast termi- 

 nus of the breeding grounds on the point. 



