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A harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) naps on a sandy beach at Point Lobos State Natural Reserve, near Carmel, California. The location is China Cove Beach, in the southeastern corner of the park.
This moulting Common Seal has certainly been attracting a lot of interest at the estuary of the River Lossie. The image was taken, from a respectable distance, with a Canon EOS 60D and Sigma EX 150-500 mm lens.
Copy of the March 7, 1638 compact with names of 6 blood relatives, of which 3 are ancestors, and one in-law: Clarke (2), Hutchinson (3), Dyer, and Savage. Written in the hand of my ancestor William Dyer, husband of Mary Barrett Dyer.
Author Christy K. Robinson wrote: "William Dyer (or Dyre, as he wrote it) was a man of many talents and abilities. Trained as a haberdasher/milliner, he arrived in America in 1635 and was soon a property owner. He was clerk of several commissions, and the 'Portsmouth Compact' of 1638 is written in his hand."
— Taken from "William Dyer and the Rhode Island state seal," March 9, 2014 (accessed 1/16/16 at marybarrettdyer.blogspot.com/2014/03/william-dyer-and-rho....)
Transcription of the Compact (with 23 signatures, 7 of which I am related to, 3 of which are ancestors):
"The 7th Day of the First Month [March], 1638
We whose names are underwritten do hereby solemnly in the presence of Jehovah incorporate ourselves into a Bodie Politick and as He shall help, will submit our persons, lives and estates unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and to all those perfect and most absolute laws of His given in His Holy Word of truth, to be guided and judged thereby.
Signed by:
William Coddington
John Clarke [brother of my ancestor Joseph Clarke]
William Hutchinson, Jr. [husband of Anne Hutchinson]
John Coggeshall
William Aspinwall
Samuel Wilbore
John Porter
John Sanford
Edward Hutchinson ["Captain," oldest son of William and Anne Hutchinson]
Thomas Savage [Son-in-law of William and Anne Hutchinson (Faith)]
William Dyre [husband of Mary Dyer]
William Freeborne
Phillip Shearman
John Walker
Richard Carder
William Baulston
Edward Hutchinson [brother of Wm., uncle of Capt. Edward, above; brother-in-law of Anne]
Henry Bull — X his mark
Randall Holden
Thomas Clarke [brother of Joseph and John Clarke]
John Johnson
William Hall
John Brightman"
Margin:
"Exodus 24:3-4
First Chronicles 11:3
Second Kings 11:17"
The scripture verses are often omitted or glossed over in the discussion of the compact because of the intended civil nature of the colony, as opposed to Boston. But here are the texts of those scripture verses, in the Geneva Bible that they likely used:
Exodus 24:3-4: Afterward Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the]Laws: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the things which the Lord hath said, will we do.
4 And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord and rose up early, and set up an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
I Chronicles 11:3: So came all the Elders of Israel to the King to Hebron, and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the Lord. And they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the Lord, by the hand of Samuel.
2 Kings 11:17: And Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord, and the King and the people, that they should be the Lord’s people: likewise between the King and the people.
Horsey seals in Norfolk © Yvonne Wallin All Rights Reserved. No usage allowed including copying or sharing without written permission
This harbour seal was photographed near the Oak Bay Marinia in Victoria, British Columbia. It was quite friendly and certainly interested in the human beings who had gathered round to look. It's big deep eyes and friendly inquisative behaviour make it easy to understand how our anscestors built stories and myths of the Selkie.
My friend Devra and I were at the ocean's edge searching for flotsam and jetsam and I used a zoom to get a 'close-up' of this young elephant seal who was lounging at the creek mouth with seven others. They should soon be returning to the sea.
Seals at Godrevy point. The seals were in the cove and there were about 100 to 120 seals all together.