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not care. The sea had gone down and we began to enjoy the Nor- 

 way-like rugged coast of Newfoundland. The mountains come 

 right down to the water, and are about 1,400 feet high, by our 

 measurement, using angular altitude by sextant and base line, our 

 distance off shore as shown by our observation for latitude and 

 longitude. 



There are many deep, narrow-mouthed coves and harbors, a good 

 number of islands and points making a most magnificent coast line. 

 In many cases 50 or 75 fathoms are found right under the shore. 

 Great patches of snow, miles in extent, cover the mountain sides. 

 Great brown patches, which the professor thinks are washings from 

 the fine examples of erosion, but which look to me like patches of 

 brown grass as we see in Penobscot Bay on the islands, vary with 

 what is apparently a scrubby evergreen growth and bald, bare rocks. 

 As we are about 18 miles off, the blue haze over all makes an en- 

 larged, roughened and much more deeply indented Camden moun- 

 tain coast line. The bays are in some cases so deep that we can 

 look into narrow entrances and see between great cliffs, only a few 

 miles apart, a water horizon on the other side. We wished very 

 much to get in towards the shore, but the calm and very strong 

 westerly current, about \ T / 2 knots, prevented. 



While enjoying the calm in pleasant contrast to our late shaking 

 up, it will be well to introduce the members of the party whom 

 Bowdoin has thought worthy to bear her name into regions seldom 

 vexed by a college yell, and to whom she has entrusted the high 

 duties of scientific investigation, in which, since the days of Professor 

 Cleaveland, she has kept a worthy place. 



In command is Prof. Leslie A. Lee, of the Biological Depart- 

 ment of Bowdoin. With a life-long experience in all branches of 

 natural history, the experience which a year in charge of the scien- 

 tific staff of the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross" in a 

 voyage from Washington around Cape Horn to Alaska, and an in- 

 timate connection with the Commission of many year's standing, 

 and the training that scholarly habits, platform lecturing and collegic 

 instruction have given him, you see a man still young, for he was 

 graduated from St. Lawrence University in 1872, and equal to all 

 the fatigues that out-of-door, raw-material, scientific work demands. 



The rest of the party have yet to prove their mettle, and of them 

 but little can now be said. Dr. Parker, who, with the Professor, 

 captain and mate, occupies the cabin proper, is an '86 man, cut out 

 for a physician and thoroughly prepared to fulfil all the functions of 



