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third of its surface was stained uniformly of an earthy colour, 

 suggesting the idea that it must have remained for a long time 

 partially imbedded in the ground. 



On the direct homeward voyage we stopped for a few days at 

 St. Helena, and also at Fayal in the Azores, finally reaching 

 Plymouth Sound on the 3rd of September, 1882, after an absence 

 from England of nearly four years. 



