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fortable sea outside, we rau into the Sakonnet River and took ten hauls 

 of the dredge and trawl between its mouth and Gould Island. 



The naturalists were employed in the laboratory on Saturday, and w© 

 were detained by unfavorable weather on Monday, but Tuesday, the 

 31st, was more favorable, and ten hauls of the trawl and dredge were 

 taken in the channel between the Dumplings and Beaver Tail, and 

 various localities in Narragansett Bay, in from 8 to 27 fathoms. On 

 the following day, September 1, ten hauls were made between the 

 Dumx)lings and Beaver Tail, in from 3 to 20 fathoms. The naturalists 

 were occupied the following day in the laboratory, and on the 3d six 

 hauls of the trawl and dredge were taken at the entrance to Vineyard 

 Sound, from 3 to 4 miles to the southward of Cuttyhunk, in 17 fathoms. 



At 3.30 p. m. we started for Wood's Holl, arriving at 4.30, when pre- 

 liminary examinations of the harbor, &c., were made, with a view of 

 stationing the ship at this place for codfish hatching during the coming 

 winter. 



At 5.15 p. m. left Wood's Holl, and started for latitude 40° 04' 

 1^., longitude 70° 23' W., the locality where the first tile fish {Loplw. 

 latilus chamwleonticeps) were reported to have been taken. We passed 

 Oay Head at 7.05 p. m., and slowed down to about 3 knots between 

 that point and No Man's Land, to allow surface towing by the natural- 

 ists, which resulted in the capture of some interesting specimens. The 

 vessel was then put at a speed of 8 knots per hour lor the night, in 

 order to reach the desired position at daylight. The wind was light 

 to moderate from SW., but there was quite a heavy cross swell from 

 SE. to SW., increasing as we left the land, and, during the latter 

 part of the night the vessel was rolling and pitching in a most livelj 

 manner. 



At 4.50 a. m., September 4, stopped, latitude 40° 04' X., longitude 

 70O 23' W., cast the lead in 65 fathoms' sand, and lowered the 

 trawl with most satisfactory results. Four miles south we found 102 

 fiithoms; eight hauls were taken during the day between the depths 

 above mentioned. 



The results were remarkable, and the temptation to seek greater depths 

 ahnost irresistible, but we had 300 fathoms of dredge rope only on the 

 reel, and were obliged to confine ourselves within moderate depths. 



The bottom and intermediate temperatures were unreliable owing to 

 the use of the JSTegretti-Zambra deep-sea thermometer in a sea-way, the 

 motion of the vessel being liable to capsize it at any time. It was the 

 results of this day's work that led us to devise some plan by which this 

 admirable thermometer could be used under all conditions of wind and 

 weather. 



The sounding and dredging apparatus which had heretofore been used 

 in depths of but 30 fathoms or less, worked so well that we concluded 

 to double their present capacity by adding to the length of rope and 

 sounding wire. 



