Repl problem with Identity Ranges?

I've given the automatic range on one of the tables for replication and I
entered
1000000 for publisher and 1000000 for subscriber.
When the table is replicated, the id column starts with 278418. Why does it
do this? does SQL know not to count? or am i missing something in
understanding?
I'm sorry. After some research, I found out that i missed something. Sorry
for the post.