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narrow belt of woods bordering the shore, the 

 walking was over soggy hummocks, with little 

 growth upon them except moss, lichens, and 

 coarse marsh grass. These were succeeded by 

 ridges of crumbling rock, between which were 

 numerous small lakes. The land seemed very 

 barren of life. Even the shores of the ponds 

 were hardly inhabited. No song of bird or 

 buzz of insect broke the stillness. Eock after 

 rock was turned over in the vain expectation 

 of finding living things on the damp under 

 side at least ; and the cushions of moss were 

 broken up in the same fruitless chase. All 

 was barren and lifeless. Not so on the shore, 

 where the collecting went on rapidly. Dredge 

 and nets were at work all the morning, and 

 abundant collections were made also from the 

 little nooks and inlets of the beach. Agassiz 

 found two new jelly - fishes, and christened 

 them at once as the locality suggested, one 

 for Captain Mayne, the other for Professor 

 Owen. Near the shore, birds also seemed 

 more abundant. A pair of kelp-geese and a 

 steamer duck were brought in, and one of the 

 officers reported humming-birds flitting across 

 the brook from which the Hassler's tanks were 

 filled. 



Early on the morning of the 30th, while 



