16,  p.  268;  Ottawa,  1887.)

The  only  way  of  obviating  the  lamentable  result  above  predicted  ap-
pears to  be  by  the  United  States,  Great  Britain,  and  other  interested
powers  taking  concerted  action  to  prevent  their  citizens  or  subjects
from  killing  fur  seals  with  firearms,  or  other  destructive  weapons,  north
of  50°  of  north  latitude,  and  between  lOQo  of  longitude  west  and  170o
of  longitude  east  from  Greenwich,  during  the  period  intervening  be-
tween April  15  and  November  1.  To  prevent  the  killing  within  a
marine  belt  of  40  or  50  miles  from  the  islands  during  that  period  would
be  ineffectual  as  a  preservative  measure.  This  would  clearly  be  so
during  the  api)roa<;h  of  the  seals  to  the  islands.  And  after  their  ar-
rival there  such  a  limit  of  protection  would  also  be  insufficient,  since
the  rapid  progress  of  the  seals  through  the  water  enables  them  to  go
great  distances  from  the  islands  in  so  short  a  time  that  it  has  been  cal-
culated that  an  ordinary  seal  could  go  to  the  Aleutian  Islands  and
back,  in  all  a  distance  of  360  or  400  miles,  in  less  than  two  days.
