746 LOUIS AGASSIZ. 



day was in Connor's Cove, a miniature harbor 

 not unlike Borja Bay in the Strait. It was a 

 tranquil retreat. The water-birds seemed to 

 find it so, for the steamer ducks were trailing 

 their long wakes through the water, and a 

 large kind of stormy petrel sailed up to the 

 vessel, and almost put himself into the hands 

 of the sailors, with whom he remained an un- 

 resisting prisoner. 



Geologically, Agassiz found Connor's Cove 

 of especial interest. It runs east and west, 

 opening on the eastern side of the channel ; 

 but the knolls, that is to say, the rounded 

 surfaces at its entrance, are furrowed across 

 the cove, at right angles with it. In other 

 words, the movement of the ice, always from 

 south to north, has been with Smythe's Chan- 

 nel, and across the Strait of Magellan. In- 

 deed it seemed to Agassiz that all the glacial 

 agency in Smythe's Channel, the trend of the 

 furrows, the worn surfaces whereon they were 

 to be found, and the steepness of southern ex- 

 posures as compared with the more rounded 

 opposite slopes, pointed to the same conclu- 

 sion. 



On the third of April Agassiz left with 

 regret this region of ocean and mountain, gla- 

 cier, snow-field, and forest. The weeks he had 



