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depth too great so late in the day, we retraced our steps and 

 shot the Agassiz trawl in about 500 fath. When it was 

 hauled at 9 P.M. the trawl was found to have fouled, and the 

 rope was badly kinked and tangled. 



This closed a very hard day's work, and a blank haul at 

 the end was disheartening. In former years I had paid out 

 our trawl warp over the stern. This year I tried the experi- 

 ment of dragging the trawl from the bow. In smooth water 

 the plan answered admirably, but in the rough water ex- 

 perienced this day I found that the steamer would not steer 

 going astern, but having a tendency to round to the wind, 

 made it most difficult to pay out the warp without kinks. 

 Before the trawl was clear dark night had closed in. 



July 4. — Kept as closely as possible to our position during 

 the night. Longitude 11° 36' W., Lat. at noon 51° 24' N. 



Station VI. 



Sounded at 5.15 a.m. in 350 fath. ; shot Agassiz trawl. 

 Once or twice I noticed an undue strain on the rope, 

 and when the trawl came to the surface at 9, it was found to 

 be all torn to pieces, the irons bent, pulled asunder, and 

 polished like silver. We had evidently fouled rocks. 



Station VII. 



Having steamed a few miles S.W., we shot the beam 

 trawl at 10 A.M. in about 500 fath. 



Boarded trawl at 1.30 ; it contained one large boulder 

 weighing about 100 lbs., and several smaller ones, subangular 

 and resembling those of the Boulder Clay. In animal life the 

 haul was rather poor, but there were some interesting corals, 

 worm-tubes, and Echinoderms. Most of the creatures were 

 crushed by the boulders. 



Since leaving Queenstown on Monday, most of us had had 

 little or no sleep, so we now steamed off for land, sighting 

 the Skelligs about sunset. We came across a dead and 

 half-decomposed cetacean about 30 feet long floating on the 

 surface of the sea. It was surrounded by a host of blue 

 sharks, which were tearing it to pieces. We succeeded in 

 shooting two, one of which we captured, and then proceeding 

 on our way, let go anchor in Balinskelligs Bay at 10 P.M. 



Station VIII. 



Friday^ July 5. — Left Balinskelligs Bay at 5 A.M., and 

 at noon shot trawl in 100 fath., 37 miles west of Bull Rock ; 



