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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
GLINKA ROOKEKIES. 
The southern, or Glinka, group of rookeries {Glinlcovskoye lezhhishtche) is situated 
about miles southeast of Karabelnoye. They contain the most important hauling- 
grounds on the island, but at the same time the most inaccessible. The island is here 
very narrow, yet the mountains average even a greater height than farther north, and 
the passes between the short and steep valleys on the east and west sides are also 
very high. The mountains rise iirecipitously from the sea, bordered only by a very 
narrow beach of rocks and stones, hardly deserving the name. All the rocks are here 
stratified, with a very pronounced dip. The projecting capes run out into jagged reefs 
formed by the exposed broken strata standing nearly on end, while numerous outlying 
rocks and stones guard the approaches (pi. 47). Singularly formed rocks and 
pinnacles carved out by the never-ceasing breakers, and saw-tooth promontories mark 
the ends of the vari^'iis bays. 
The length of the whole beach of this rookery is about 0 miles, but this stretch is 
not occupied by a continuous line of seals. On the contrary, they are gathered in 
groups at certain points which, for some reason unknown to us, are preferred to others, 
although apiiarently equally suitable. These various seal-grounds are named as 
follows from west to east: Gprelaya, Lebiazhi Mys, Peresheyek, Urili Kamen, Pest- 
shanoye, Pestshani Mys, Pagani, Zapadni, Sabatcha Dira, Palata, Zapalata., 
Sikatchinskaya, Gavarushkaya, and Pabinskaya Pad. 
Of these, Palata {Falatinskoye lezhhishtche) is umjuestionably the most important. 
It is named from the high and sharp promontory which extends faidhest out into tlie 
sea on this part of the coast, and which somewliat resembles a large house with a 
steep, peaked roof. The top of it is fully 500 feet above the sea, and the walls are very 
steep, being in fact nearly perpendicular on the south side. This is Palata proper. 
A very jagged reef extends in a southwesterly direction from the foot of it, and to the 
northwest are several detached rocks. From one of these, two of the accompanying 
photographs were taken (pis. 48 and 49). On the north side this promontory is 
separated from the high mountain walls back of it by a narrow gully, which toward 
the sea expands into a somewhat open basin, the bottom and sides of which are lined 
with Ui pale-buff clay. The beach, a narrow strip covered with large rounded pebbles, 
extends northward under the clayey baidis for several hundred yards, and contiimes 
in the same manner under the iirecipices of one of the higher mountains of this 
l)art of the island, rising to 1,400 feet. No particular feature, except a idle of rocks 
somewhat larger than usual, distinguishes this part of the beach, which is named 
Sahatcha Dira, the “dog-hole.”^ 
From here to Pestshani Mys the character of the coast and beach is the same, 
except that about halfway the overhanging cliff's crowd the beach still more closely, 
with a small reef at their feet, thus forming a “mys,’’ or cape, Zapadni Mys, probably 
so called because it is situated nearly due west from Glinka village. The gently 
curving beach between Zapadni and Pestshani Mys is called Pagani, the Unclean, for 
no obvious reason. At this place there is a break in the mountain wall behind, for 
above the coast escarpment a comparatively wide valley opens up, the drainage from 
which empties out at Pagani in three distinct streams. 
'Tliere are a inimber of places on Copper Island called Sabatcha Dira, but they are in all other 
cases actual holes through the rocks. I have been unable to see the application of the name to that 
part of the Palata rookery now so designated. Formerly there may have been such a perforated rock, 
DOW crumbled to pieces. 
