RELATING TO RT. GEORGE ISLAND. 



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1874:-'75. For a few days duiiiig' each one of these years 1 visited St. 

 raul Ishiiid, never reiiiaininji tliere for any k'n,i>th of time, however. 

 Eacli season while 1 was hjcated on the ishmds 1 nuide a careful ex- 

 amination of the breeding grounds on St. George Island, noting particu- 

 larly the areas covered by them; and 1 now recollect the condition of 

 said rookeries and tlie approximate area which each of them covered in 

 the year 1874, I have carefully examined the lines verification of 

 drawn by Thomas F. Morgan on exhibits signed by him charts *'iri ad" bv 

 and marked Exhibits H, I, J, and K; that the' lines ^urcorifcti^s'"'''"' 

 in red on said exhibits practically represent the areas 

 so covered in 1874; but I think that in some instances, hereafter 

 stated, Mr. Morgan has been a little too conservative in his estimates. 



On Starry Arteal Eookery (Exhibit H) the line should be extended 

 along the shore to the eastern limit of the i)ond, shown on said Exhibit, 

 and should extend nearly as far again up the hillside. 



On JSTorth Rookery (Exhibit J) the line does not, in my judgment, 

 extend as far back from the shore as it should, as there had been a great 

 increase since 1871 on this particular rookery. 



I would further state that there was a perceptible in- 

 crease in all these areas from 1871 to 1874. 



I would also state that the spaces indicated as areas ^ ., , . ... 



,•1 T, , -J.- Ill -1 Verifies charts olj. 



over winch seals have at various times hauled, on said Stanley Brown. 

 Exhibits, by J. Stanley Brown (as I am informed and 

 believe), are, to the best of my knowledge and belief, correctly desig- 

 nated. 



Samuel Falconer. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me, a notary public in and for tlie 

 District of Columbia, U. S. A., this 2()th day of April, 1892. 

 IL. s.l Sevellon A. Brown. 



Deposition of Max Ueilbronner, secretary of the AJasla Commercial Com- 

 pany. 



SEALSKIN RECORD OF ST. GEORGE ISLAND, ALASKA, 1871 TO 1889, 

 INCLUSIVE. 



Showing the dates, the roolerhs from which the seals were drireii, and the uitmhcr Killed 

 f 10)11 each drove. 



