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OUR ARCTIC PROVINCE. 



the day was one of exceeding beauty for that region it was a 

 swift alternation overhead of those characteristic rain-fogs, be- 

 tween the succession of which the sun breaks out with transcen- 

 dent brilliancy through misty halos about it. This parade-field 

 reflected the light like a mirror, and the seals, when they broke 

 apart here and there for a moment, just enough to show its sur- 

 face, seemed as though they walked upon the water. What a scene 

 to put upon canvas that amphibian host involved in those alternate 

 rainbow lights and blue-gray shadows of the fog ! 



Lion Neck 



NORTHEAST POINT 



SCALE OF FEET 



Survey Showing the Immense Breeding Area of Novastoshnah. 

 [The shaded belt is that ground wholly covered by Fur-Seal Rookeries.] 



While Novastoshnah is the largest, yet in some respects I con- 

 sider Tolstoi, with its bluffs and its long sweep which takes in the 

 sands of English Bay, to be the most picturesque, though it be not 

 the most impressive rookery especially when that parade-ground 

 belonging to it is reached by the climbing seals. 



From Tolstoi at this point, circling around three miles to 

 Zapadnie, is the broad sand-beach of English Bay, upon which and 

 back over its gently rising flats are the great hauling-grounds of 

 the "holluschickie," which I have indicated on the general map, 



