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crustaceans, and sponges were very numerous in the 

 cold area, the tangles often came up absolutely loaded, 

 while there was but little within the dredge-bag. 



In the course of the last series of dredgings 

 Ave crossed the position of the bank on which Ave 

 got large specimens of Terebratula cranium in 

 so great abundance the year before, but Ave could 

 not find it. The bank appears to be of very limited 

 area, and both on this occasion and on the previous 

 one the sky Avas so overcast for several days together, 

 just Avhen Ave were in this neighbourhood, that it Avas 

 impossible to fix the position either of the 'Lightning' 

 or of the ' Porcupine ' by observation. A dead-reckon- 

 ing is of course kept under great disadvantages when 

 the vessel is drifting for the greater part of the time 

 half anchored by a dredge. 



Prom Station 59 we proceeded nortliAvard to Thors- 

 havn, Avhere Ave Avere Avarmly received by our kind 

 friend Governor Holt en, who had been foreAvarned of 

 our visit, and at once came off in his barge to Avelcome 

 us. GoAernor Holten Avas uncommonly proud of this 

 barge, and he had some reason. She Avas a very hand- 

 some trim boat ; and, manned by a dozen stout Fseroese 

 boatmen in their neat uniform, and with the Danish 

 ensign flying at the stern, and our handsome friend 

 muffled in his military cloak, and with a thick hood 

 to keep out the somewhat palpable and intrusive 'cli- 

 mate' of Fau'oe, she looked all that could be desired. 

 AVlien the Governor came on board, he proposed to 

 Captain Calver to try a race with him for the honour 

 of old England and the white ensign. Some of us 

 were going ashore, and when the Governor came up 

 from the cabin our whale-boat was lying alongside 



