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beautiful spectacle. The friction of their bodies in gliding 

 through the wares but a few feet beneath the surface, cause the 

 surroimding waters to emit a brilliancy of phosphorescence, to 

 such a degree, that the vessel seems to be richly imbedded in a 

 mass of liquid flame — not unaptly resembling a multitude of 

 meteors pursuing their varied courses through the night. 



A circmnstance occurred which satisfactorily proved to us that 

 this individual shoal never left us during the whole distance, but 

 accompanied us as an escort to the very boundaries of their do- 

 main. When first discovered, the seamen were daily in the habit 

 of striking them with the grains from the bows of the ship : one 

 of them having been struck, was brought to the sm"face, when the 

 iron losing its hold, it escaped, bearing on its side a large ragged 

 wound, which easily distinguished it from its comrades in the sea. 

 As long as they remained in company, this individual continued 

 daily to be seen and recognized by the sailors as the " gentleman 

 with the patch." 



WTien moored at the South Shetlands, we were constantly in 

 the habit of suspending lines around with baited hooks over the 

 vessel's side, but in no instance did we find them in the sli2;htest 

 degree molested, and the only fish that we saw durino- our stay of 

 several weeks was a small species of herring that fell from the 

 beak of an alarmed sea-bird, on being fired at in its flight. 



DESCRIPTION OF SOME OF THE BOXES OF THE 

 ZEUGLODON CETOIDES OF PROF. OWEN. 



There is no word in the English language which so appropri- 

 ately expresses the true character of certain phenomena and 

 events, or whose import conveys to our minds so much of the 

 profound and deep, as mystery. The first impression as it re- 

 gards its meaning perhaps is, that it can be applied only to 

 those events and phenomena whose causes ai-e so far removed 

 from our means of investigation, that they are above and be- 

 yond our reach. We believe, however, that this is not strictly 



