448 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
captured were Icelus hamatus (Kroyer), Cyclopterus spinosus 
(Miill.), Liparts Fabricit (Kroyer), Triglops pingellii (Reinh.), 
Gymnelis viridis (Fabr.), and Gadus Fabricii (Rich). The Echino- 
dermata were more abundant, and a crinoid, Antedon Eschrichtii 
(Miiller), was a conspicuously beautiful object, clinging to the 
meshes of the trawl] by its dorsal cirri. 
On the 12th August a favourable breeze opened a water-way 
along the shore, and our ships managed to round Cape Hawks, 
and to find shelter amongst the floes in Dobbin Bay. Our 
progress northwards from this point until rounding Cape Frazer, 
the meeting-place of the Polar and Baffin Bay tides, was dis- 
tressingly tedious and harassing. As a rule the atmosphere was 
clear, and we were still enjoying the midnight sun, but the 
sameness of the scenery became monotonous. The coast-line is 
a series of headlands rising to a height of a thousand or twelve 
hundred feet, with abrupt mural precipices, a steep talus stretching, 
as a rule, about half way up the cliffs from the shore. The in- 
dentations between the headlands are valleys debouching abruptly 
on the sea. In nearly every valley the old lines of sea-margins 
were distinctly marked by series of terraces, showing the con- 
tinuous elevation of the land. To seaward the sound was packed 
with floe-ice moving north and south with the tides and winds, but 
with a general set to the southward. At the changes of the tides 
small pools of water would open, but hardly ever a continuous 
water-way of a quarter of a mile. Our leader was always on the 
watch to take advantage of the slightest change in the ice; but on 
many occasions part of our hard-earned progress had to be 
relinquished, and a timely retreat from between two closing floes 
saved the ship from destruction. The bumping of the ship charging 
against the ice, the creaking of her timbers when squeezed or 
nipped, the incessant quickly-given words of command, and the 
ever-present chance of shipwreck, with the difficulty of getting 
sleep, were very trying to the nerves, and it was with a feeling of 
thankfulness and relief that, owing to the ships at times being 
closely hemmed in by the ice, we were able to have a run on shore. 
Washington Irving Island, at the entrance of Dobbin Bay, was 
visited, and afforded a collection of Silurian fossils, but all corals. 
In one strata the rock appeared to be entirely composed of 
Favosites gothlandicus and F. alveolaris, the former species greatly 
preponderating. 
