VOYAGE OUTWARD. .'J7 



shore, and showed the characteristic sharp fracture of 

 basalt. Some huts were also discernible. No appearance 

 of a plain, not even an inch, presented itself in an extent 

 of coast of more than fifty miles this day ; and as far as 

 the sight could ascertain from the highest point of ob- 



solitary one, as the ice blink (a peculiar brightness in tlie horizon) is 

 no longer discernible : some parallel beds of cirrostratus in profile : 

 all else clear : high land appearing above the horizon, supposed to be 

 Staten Hook or Cape Farewell : procellaiia gulosa, and a species of 

 mergus too distant to be recognized in view : a pair of fringilla tristis 

 alighted on the ship, and afters ards flew towards east : in the evening 

 passed a stream of ice : passed a large berg over whose lower ex- 

 tremity the sea broke, as upon a rock : two seals seen. 



April 14: ther. 30°, 35°, 30°: wind N.W., strong breeze: light 

 brown patches of cirrostratus : cleared the pack : detached cumulus 

 apparently motionless : the heavy manner in which the procellaria 

 glacialis plies his wing would indicate a southerly wind (at 5 p. m. 

 the atmosphere has just undergone a very remarkable change, proving 

 its direct influence on the animal system : sky dully bright : light 

 flaky snow : wind nearly calm) : polar lights very vivid, I'unning from 

 E. and jjoints S. of east. 



April 15 : ther. 38°, 40°, 35° : wind S. b. W., light breeze : weather 

 very fine : procellaria glacialis, larus maximus, a flock of L. tri- 

 dactylus : the weather gall* seen in S.E. See Plate XVII. Fig. 2. 



* A remarkable cloud of singular hue, being of a deep indigo blue, with 

 a dash of yellow, which gives it a greenish cast. It generally appears em- 



