"In ages which have no record
these islands were the
home of millions of happy birds, the resort of a hundred times more millions
of fishes, of sea lions, and other creatures whose names are not so common;
the marine residence, in fact, of innumerable creatures predestined from the
creation of the world to lay up a store of
wealth for the British farmer, and a store of quite another sort for an immaculate
Republican government"
(Duffield 78).