L.VERADOR JOURNAL 359 



was a collection of sheer, tine gravel, without a 

 particle of soil that I could perceive, the first crop 

 was, what I thought a very fair one; but at the 

 end of the sununer, I had a quantity of rotten sea- 

 weed dug in. The following sununer, to prevent 

 the ground being so much dried up as it had been 

 the preceding one, I transplanted cabbages, cauli- 

 flowers, and lettuces, when very young, and care- 

 fully covered the whole of the ground between 

 them, with fresh sea-weed, which had a most ex- 

 cellent effect ; for, by that means, there was a con- 

 stant moisture preserved, and the plants arrived 

 at great perfection. 



In another garden, w^here the soil Tvas a hot, 

 fine sand, the first year's crop was nothing to 

 boast of; but, as I carried on a great salmon fish- 

 ery at that place, I fallowed part of it the follow- 

 ing summer, and covered it wdth the entrails of the 

 salmon, which contain abundance of fat; in the 

 course of three years, by manuring it in that man- 

 ner, the sand was absolutely become too strong 

 and adhesive. 



All the sealing-posts now exhibit a very differ- 

 ent appearance from what they originally did, 

 from the great quantity of oil that has been spilt 

 upon the ground every spring, and the putrefac- 

 tion of the seals' carcasses in the summer. 



On landing in tlio harbour of Tatalina, on my 

 last voyage fi"om Trinity to Tjaliradoi-, T oliserved 

 a luxuriancy of herbage, which T did not sup|)ose 

 the soil, in that part of the woi'ld ca]>able of ]iro- 

 ducing; but on a closci- inspection T found, the 



