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Near the sea shore, the burrows of foxes were 

 seen, and traces of their feet below high water- 

 mark ; but none of these animals were met with. 

 The feet-marks of white bears, and probably of 

 rein-deer, were also perceptible. The birds were 

 not so numerous as I anticipated. We only saw bur- 

 gomasters, fulmars, puffins, guillemots, little auks, 

 kittywakes, and terns. Several cetaceous animals, 

 principally of the species Balaena Physalis, were 

 geen, but no mysticete. 



We returned to our ships at six in the morning ; 

 •\vhen the weather being clear, I took bearings of 

 the most remarkable parts cf the coast, with azi- 

 muths and altitudes of the sun, for determining the 

 variation of the compass, and the longitude of the 

 island by the chronometer. 



A fishing party, which I sent out, proving unsuc- 

 cessful in the ofiing, ajjpioached the shore, about 

 two miles to the eastward of the place we visited, 

 where, though the surf was very considerable, and 

 the strand very contracted, they effected a landing. 

 They observed much drift-wood, a boat's oar, a ship's 

 mast, and some other wrought wood scattered along 

 the shore. Every mineral they noticed, and all the 

 specimens they brought away, bore the same vol- 

 canic character as those I observed. Near some 

 large fissures, which here and there occurred in the 

 rocky and precipitous cliff, immense heaps of lava 

 were seen, which appeared to have been poured out 



