Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 484
e AlaskaCommercial Company as royalty on the ani-mals killed (six sevenths of the purchase-priceof Alaska). When to this we add the amount sisted upon taking Fur Seals by shooting themin the open sea, by which wasteful processseven were lost for every three secured. Butif it were not for the loss… … FUR SEALS. received in a twenty per cent, import duty onthe dressed skins as they came back to us fromthe English dyers, the total revenue derivedfrom the Fur Seal in twenty years amounts tothe enormous sum of $8,500,000. Such ananimal was worth saving from destruction. Noother quadruped ever…
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