14 Voyage of Capt. Sir James C. Ross to the Antarctic. 



3. Mounds with stone graves in them. 



Barren County. — Twelve miles southwest of Glasgow are 

 many small oval mounds, placed fifty yards apart so as to form 

 a circle, 1200 or 1500 feet in circumference. They appear to 

 have sustained structures of some kind. In the center of the 

 group is a large truncated mound, between twenty and thirty feet 

 in height. Another of like size occurs without the circle. — Col- 

 J lins* s Kentucky, p. 176. 



Edmonston County. — An enclosure on Indian Hill near Mam- 

 moth Cave. 



Art. II. — Notice of and citations from a Voyage of Discovery 

 and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions, during 

 the years 1839-43, by Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R. N., 

 Knt., D.C.L. Oxon., F.R.S., etc. ; with plates, maps and wood- 

 cuts. In two volumes, 8vo, pp. 366 and 447. Lond. 1847. 



(Continued from ii ser., vol. vii, p. 329.) 



In our last number we followed Captain Ross to his farthest 

 Southern Point in January, 1841, — midsummer of the southern 

 hemisphere. In the following pages we continue our abstracts 

 for the remainder of his cruise. 



In latitude 78° 15' 3" S., the barrier was 180 feet high, 1000 

 feet thick and stretched along for 450 miles ; a beautiful sketch 

 of a scene in this part of the Antarctic is given at page 232 of the 

 first volume of Captain Ross's Journal. While cruising in these 

 regions, they frequently threw overboard a bottle containing a 

 notice of their proceedings from day to day and the position of 

 the vessels. 



Feb. 5. — Three large penguins were brought on board, one of 

 which weighed sixty-six and the smallest fifty-seven pounds ; 

 their flesh is very dark and of a rank fishy flavor. Two seals 

 were also captured to furnish oil. 



Ice was taken on board to replenish the water — the ice of salt 

 water being fresh. 



Feb. 8. — An iceberg shewed a large rock upon it. Soundings 

 were obtained seven miles from the barrier in lat. 77° 39' in 275 

 fathoms; in one instance, within a quarter of a mile of the ice 

 cliffs, the soundings were 330 fathoms with a green muddy 



bottom. 



A view of the upper surface of the barrier was obtained on a 

 narrow isthmus where the cliffs were about fifty feet high. The 

 surface was quite smooth like an immense plain of frosted silver. 

 Gigantic icicles hung from every point proving that it sometimes 

 thaws, although in the month corresponding to the August of 



