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Schcrzer ; Zoology, G. Frauenfeld and J. Zelebor ; Draughts- 

 man and Artist, Joseph Sellemy." 



Towards 5 p.m. the last boat came off with the measuring 

 and levelling instruments, and various articles of baggage.* 

 The embarkation was finally completed. Half-an-hour later 

 the Novara weighed anchor, and we steered, favoured with most 

 splendid weather and full of pleasing anticipations, for the 

 adjacent island of New Amsterdam. Not without sundry 

 twitches of sadness did we remark the sharp crater of St. 

 Paul gradually fade away like a vision in the gloom of 

 approaching night ; and many undying memories must attach 

 to our residence on that lonely, world-forsaken island. 



And now, at the moment of our departure from the island, 

 be it permitted us to cast a retrospective glance at the various 

 results obtained by the Expedition of the Novara during her 

 stay at St. Paul. 



Never hitherto on this island, so important by its geogra- 

 phical position for ships trading with China, the East Indies, 

 Australia, and New Zealand, have astronomical and magnetic 

 observations and geodesical measurements been so thoroughly 

 ascertained as by the Novara expedition. Upon a carefully 

 measured base-line, various points of the upper and lower 



* Remembering liow many bottles and glass tubes were sbattered, we have not 

 tliouglit it beyond our province to recommend future scientific travellers to bring with 

 them a good supply of duplicates of all instruments liable to breakage, as it is very 

 difl&cult to get such insignificant articles replaced out of Em-ope, and we frequently 

 found on tliis occasion the want of some such little instrument interposed au 

 obstacle to the further usefulness of the instruments. 



