THE "CHOKER" MOUNTAINS. 



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Other authorities considered it to be of vegetable origin, judging it to be probably the 

 drainage from some particular kind of moss, the roots of which are of that colour. 



THE " DOROTHEA " AND THE " TRENT " IN THE ICE. 



The results of this voyage were not extensive. Ross only reached Sir James Lancaster's 

 Sound, where an imaginary discovery of his has since given rise to much ridicule. He 

 fancied that he saw at the bottom of a bay an extensive range of mountains, the which 

 he somewhat unfortunately named after Mr. Croker, the then Secretary of the Admiralty. 



