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siderable de rauinial. augniente aussi les diffieultes a 

 le faire sortir du dredge sans etre deVhire. Quoique 

 je fusse assez heureux pour le saisir avant qu'il sort ait 

 de 1'eau. et mal<rre toute la precaution possible, je 

 reussis seulement a eonserver deux disques d'une pa ire 

 de bras fernies. niais a ceux-ci ineine le peau etait 

 rompue. Quand Tanimal est eoniplet et coherent, 

 ainsi que je I'ai TU line oil deux Ibis sous 1'eau dans 

 le dredge, il est veritableuient un exeuiplaire de luxe, 

 une 'gloria niaris/ J?1 



The bad weather was unrelenting, and again inter 

 rupted us for a couple of days : we got a sounding 

 however on the 5th of September, in lat. 00"" 30' X. 

 and long. 7" 16' AV., with no bottom at 150 fathoms 

 and a niininiuni temperature about the freezing-point. 

 It will be seen by the chart that the last rive stations. 

 Xos. 7 to 11, form an oblique line from south-east to 

 north-west between the northern part of Orkney and 

 the Faeroe Bank. The bottom is throughout a mixture 

 of gravel and sand, with patches of mud ; Xos. 7 and 8 

 principally the debris of the rnetamorphie rocks of 

 the north of Scotland ; Xos. 9, 10, and 11 chieliy 

 volcanic, the detritus of the F&roe traps. This line 

 of soundings is entirely within what we afterwards 

 learned to call the ' co:cl area/ the thermometer for 

 depths below 300 fathoms indicating a temperature 

 slightly above or below C. 



As we were now again approaching the Ftcroe 

 fishing-banks, we shaped our course southwards, and 

 on the morning of September <3th we sounded and 



1 Description d'un Xouveau Genre des Asteries, par P. Clir. Abs- 

 jornsen, in " Fauna littoralis Xorvegise/' l\v Pr. M. Sars, J. Ivoren, 

 and 1). C. Danielssen. Seconde Livraison. Bergen. 18-~>l), p. IMJ. 



