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Next morning we found that there had been a very heavy 

 snowfall on the Tuegian mountains during the night, and for 

 some hours there was a series of the most beautiful fleeting 

 effects of sunshine on the snow, varied by huge snow-clouds 

 sweeping along the Strait, so as to conceal the opposite shore 

 from view. The dredge yielded a very fine specimen of an 

 Echinid of the family Spatangid(B, a live Terebratula, and 

 many examples of a small species of Leda. I spent the 

 afternoon along with Dr. Campbell in visiting the shores of 

 the port and the small islands at its entrance, but did not 

 observe anything worthy of mention, if I may except a 

 snipe {Gallinago Paraguice), which was shot on one of the 

 islets. 



The 26th (Good Friday) was a cold, dreary day of 

 perpetual rain ; and the 27th was chiefly marked by the 

 arrival of the " Eingdove," which we had left at Sandy Point 

 engaged in wooding. Much rain fell during the day, but 

 Dr. Campbell and I spent a few hours pulling about the 

 harbour, in the course of which we obtained a species of cor- 

 morant {Phalacrocorax Magellanicus) new to us. The 28th 

 (Sunday) was a day characterised by heavy showers, and on the 

 ensuing morning we got under way, and entered Smyth's 

 Channel, the "Eingdove" following in our company. We 

 passed two canoes with some of our old friends in them, who 

 waved their cloaks and yelled after the customary manner, 

 and came to an anchor among the Otter Islands at four p.m. 

 Next day we weighed between four and five a.m., and pro- 

 ceeded as far north as Mayne Harbour, which we reached 

 late in the afternoon. Eain descended in floods throughout 

 nearly the whole of this day and the next, continuing till 

 the afternoon of the 1st of April, when, though it did not cease, 

 it moderated sufficiently to permit of a walk, and Dr. 



