t'ZG FAVOURITE RESORT OF SEALS. 
and tlie carcases of others were seen decomposed 
and torn by gulls and cojmorants. The dirt, 
stench, and strange company, with the wild great 
rocks towering all around, produced an impression 
certainly novel, but not altogether agreeable. 
We anchored pretty close under the lee of the 
island, directly o]>posite a little white shingly cove, 
with 2Latches of long coarse reedy grass in the back- 
ground. This is a favourite resort of the seals, and 
nowhere can their manners and customs be more 
favourably studied. The old gray bulls rear the 
fore part of their bodies and slowly sway them- 
selves from side to side, meanwhile throwing u}) 
their great heads and bellowing continuously. The 
cows and tlieir calves are con^reffated together in a 
coterie by themselves, and rej>osing on the outlying 
rocks, in attitudes ah}dhing but graceful, is an entire 
seraglio of young females. The noise made by the 
seals during the night is something fearful. One 
might imagine it to be something like the croaking 
of Erobdingnag bull-frogs, varied at intervals by 
deep growls and sharp cries, loud snortings, dis- 
