THE ATLANTIC. 



CHAPTER I. 



BERMUDAS TO MADEIRA. 



Final Departure from Bermudas. — Temperature Sounding near the Island. — Scalpel- 

 lum regium. — Manganese Concretions. — Gulf -weed. — Gnathophausia. — The Gen- 

 eral Aspect of the A9ores. — The Island of Fayal. — Horta. — The Island of Pico. 

 — San Miguel. — Ponta Delgada. — Orange Cultivation. — An Excursion to Furnas. 

 — Sete-Cidades. — The Garden of M. Jose do Canto. — A Religious Ceremony. — 

 Flabellum alabastrum. — Ceratotrochus nobilis. — Arrival at Funchal. 



Appendix A. — Table of Temperatures observed between Bermudas and Madeira. 

 Appendix B. — Table of Specific Gravities observed between Bermudas and Madeira. 



"We left Bermudas on Thnrsdaj, the 12th of June, for the 

 Azores. His Excellency Major-general Lefroj, C.B., F.Tl.S., 

 governor of the island, with his private secretary (Captain 

 Trench), and Captain Aplin, R.N., Captain Superintendent of 

 the Dock-yard, and a party of ladies, came on board in the aft- 

 ernoon ; and we bid farewell with great regret to the friends 

 from whom we had received such unvarying kindness during 

 our stay. At half-past five we steamed out of the Camber, and 

 passed among the reefs to Murray's anchorage, on the north- 

 east side of the island, where we anchored for the night. jS^ext 

 morning we proceeded through the narrows, and early in the 

 forenoon, having seen the last of the beautiful though treacher- 

 ous purple shadows in the bright-green waters of Bermudas, we 

 set all plain sail, and stood on our course to Fayal. In the aft- 

 ernoon we got up steam and sounded, lat. 32° 37' N., long. 64° 



