"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).