"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).