Ice-beds on Eschscholtz Bay • 73 



October 7, 1826, page ^^^. " Mr. Elson went up Eschscholtz Bay 

 with two boats for [p. 334] the purpose of sounding and obtaining 

 further information of Buckland River. * * * The barge brought 

 us down a valuable addition to our collection of fossils, the cliff 

 having broken away considerably since the first specimens were ob- 

 tained." 



Part II, page 560, September 18, 1827. " On the i8th a party of 

 the officers landed in Eschscholtz Bay to search for fossils, but they 

 were unsuccessful, in consequence of an irregularity of the tide, 

 which was on that occasion unaccountably high, and scarcely fell 

 during the day. The cliffs had broken away considerably since the 

 preceding year ; and the frozen surface of the cliff appeared in 

 smaller quantities than before, but the earth was found congealed at 

 a less depth from the top. This examination tended to confirm 

 more steadfastly the opinion that the ice forms only a coating to the 

 cliff, and is occasioned by small streams of water oozing out, which 

 either become congealed themselves in their descent, or convert into 

 ice the snow which rests in the hollows." 



[Captain F. W. Beechey. Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and 

 Beering's Strait. Part II, 1831, pp. 593-612. 3 plates. Appendix. — On the 

 Occurrence of the remains of Elephants, and other Quadrupeds, in the cliffs 

 of frozen mud, in Eschscholtz Bay, within Beering's Strait, and in other 

 distant parts of the shores of the Arctic seas. By the Rev. Wm. Buck- 

 land, D. D., F. L. S., F. G. S., and professor of geology and mineralogy in the 

 University of Oxford.] 



" Having been requested, at the time of Captain Beechey's return 

 to England, 1828, to examine the collection of animal remains which 

 he brought home from the shores of Eschscholtz Bay, and to pre- 

 pare a description of them for the present publication, I attended at 

 the Admiralty to assist at the opening and distribution of these speci- 

 mens. The most perfect series, including all the specimens, engraved 

 in plates i, 2, 3 (fossils), was selected for the< British Museum; 

 another series, including some of the largest tusks of elephants, was 

 sent to the Museum of the College of Edinburg, and other tusks to 

 the Museum of the Geological Society of London. To the plates of 

 these fossils, I have added a map of the bay in which they were col- 

 lected,' on the same spot where similar remains were first discovered 

 by Lieutenant Kotzebue and Dr. Eschscholtz, on the 8th of August, 



^ This map was not published until 1839 when it appeared along with other 

 geological notes at the end of the volume on the Zoology of Captain Beechey's 

 Voyage. 



