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Victoria — hoisted the British Colours Gave the Boats Crew 

 an allowance of Grog with three hearty cheers for Old 

 England. 



The set phrase for taking possession is delightful where the 

 only opposition could have come from the curious crowds of 

 penguins, martial in looks but mild in behaviour, for : 



The Species of Penguins amphibious Little Creatures 

 were so thick the Captn. Could not enumerate them. But the 

 beach w^s Literally coverd. with them. 



At 12 oclock the Captain Come on Board we made all 

 Sail Eunning by the Land to the Eastward Blowing very 

 hard and Still Keeping out to Sea to avoid Danger. 



On the 13th we made Mount Sabrina [a poetic lapse for 

 Mt. Sabine. Doubtless he had no more acquaintance with 

 * Comus ' than with the learned and gallant Secretary of the 

 Eoyal Society, but at all events the shipping list gave him 

 the name, for the Sahrina was one of Weddell's little boats 

 when he made the previous record for ' farthest South '] 

 here is a Phenomena. This splendid mountain Eising 

 Gradually from the Sea Shore to the Enormous height of 

 Sixteen thousand Eight hundred and ninety feet high. I 

 Could compare it to nothing Else but the Speir of a church 

 drawn out to a regular taper point. Protruding through the 

 Clouds. But beyond this as far as the Eyes Could Carry the 

 object Seemed more Interesting. 



My friend if i could only view and Study the SubHmety 

 of nature — But Lo i had to pull the brails. 



The prose of life has a most unhappy way of obtruding itself, 

 especially on board a sailing-ship in dangerous waters. But 

 though his interrupted musings could never be wholly satisfied, 

 he picked up scraps of knowledge as he went along and moreover 

 added reflections of his own. 



This noble battery of Ice which fortifyd. the Land two 

 hundred feet high. And floating islands in all directions this 

 Strange Scenery was Eemarkably Striking and Grand. The 

 bold masses of Ice that walld. in the Land, the romantic guJf 

 of the mountains as they glitter in the Sun Eendered this 

 Scene Quite Enchanting, this Mountain is most perpendicular 



