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Cape Borlase Warren (N. Hartz). 



July 14"'. Tlie iiexl pliu-e in which we hintled was ahl. 

 1 km. lo the north of Cape liorla.se Warren; we did not 

 slay but 3 hs. here. 



Inside a low sea-maryin, made up of gneiss-blocks, was 

 found a small lagoon with fresh water, originating from a snow- 

 drift close to the beach. The sea nevertheless once in a while 

 sets into the lagoon, a circumstance of which numerous Luini- 

 «an'a-leaves and sea-mussels in the water bore witness. 



Animal life in the lagoon was rich and swarming; great 

 swarms of Apus glacialis were stirring the mud on the bottom^); 

 brown Daphniae and countless gnatworms were rooting the 

 bottom or swimming in the water; on mosses in the water 

 was seen a rich ChlorophyUaceae-\egelSi[.\on. 



On the inside of the lagoon (western side) was found a 

 narrow green fringe made up of Glycei'ia vilfoidea, sprinkled 

 with flowering SteUaria humifusa^ some few" Cochleariae, Carex 

 iirsina (largely cropped by geese), Ranunculus hyperhoreus 

 (partly with floating leaves, now in flower), F/iijjpsia algida 

 and Koenigia — besides numerous mosses. The whole of the 

 vegetation along the lagoon had a white salt-covering; numerous 

 excrements of geese were scattered everywhere on the beach; 

 in the fat, moist marshy ground and in the half moulded geese- 

 excrements were found quantities of small worms. The humus- 

 layer along the inside of the lagoon appeared by the very 

 wrinkles of its surface to be made up mostly of excrements of 

 geese, a quite characteristic form of mould met with again 

 later on in many places frequented by the geese. 



The grey colour of Apus completely matches the grey mire at the bottom 

 of the lagoon ; the animal was hardly discernible when lying quietly on 

 the bottom. Now and then a solitary Apus might be seen swimming 

 on its back and with its mouth in the very surface of the water sear- 

 ching and skimming this latter most carefully; every single air-bubble 

 on the surface was thoroughly investigated. 



