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consists of low, rounded, quite barren, hills of granite and 

 greenstone. Sir John Narborough called one part South 

 Desolation, because it is " so desolatfe a land to behold ;" 

 and well indeed might he say so. Outside the main islands 

 there are numberless scattered rocks, on which the long 

 swell of the open ocean incessantly rages. We passed out 

 between the East and West Furies, and a httle further 

 northward there are so many breakers that the sea is called 

 the Milky Way. One sight of such a coast is enough to 

 make a landsman dream for a week about shipwreck, peril, 

 and death ; and with this sight, we bade farewell for ever to 

 Tierra del Fuesro. 



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