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siderable de 1'animal, augmente aussi les difficultes a 

 le faire sortir du dredge sans etre dechire. Quoique 

 je fusse assez heureux pour le saisir avant qu'il sortait 

 de 1'eau, et malgre toute la precaution possible, je 

 reussis seulement a conserver deux disques d'une paire 

 de bras fermes, mais a ceux-ci meme le peau etait 

 rompue. Quand 1'animal est complet et coherent, 

 ainsi que je 1'ai vu une ou deux fois sous 1'eau dans 

 le dredge, il est veritablement un exemplaire de luxe, 

 une 'gloria maris.' >J1 



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. 60 30' N. 

 and long. 7 16' W., with no bottom at 450 fathoms 

 and a minimum temperature about the freezing-point. 



! It will be seen by the chart that the last five stations, 

 ]S T os. 7 to 11, form an oblique line from south-east to 

 north-west between the northern part of Orkney and 



; the Eaeroe Bank. The bottom is throughout a mixture 



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

 principally the debris of the metamorphic rocks of 

 the north of Scotland ; Nos. 9, 10, and 11 chiefly 

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



s of soundings is entirely within what we afterwards 

 learned to call the ' cold area,' the thermometer for 

 depths below 300 fathoms indicating a temperature 



i slightly above or below C. 



As we were now again approaching the Faeroe 

 fishing-banks, we shaped our course southwards, and 

 on the morning of September 6th we sounded and 



1 Description d'un Xouveau Genre des Aste*ries, par P. Chr. Abs- 

 jornsen, in "Fauna littoralis Norvegise," by Dr. M. Sars, J. Koren, 

 and D. C. Danielssen. Seconde Livraison. Bergen, 18-56, p. 00. 



