BET Re Lee, SRE PME Eee Ree 
Swedish North-Polar Expedition. 233 
During the passage of the Sofia from Norway to Spitzbergen, 
its officers, Captain Baron von Otter and Lieutenant Palander, 
took a number of soundings in the deeper parts with a ‘“ Bull- 
dog” apparatus of the same kind as that constructed at 
Tromsé, by Torell and Chydenius, for the voyage of 1861, and 
which was found to be particularly applicable. These sound- 
ings were zealously continued during our cruising amid the 
drift-ice between 80° and 82°, and gave very interesting results 
accompanied by snow-storms, prevailed out at sea—a circum- 
ta 7 
* Among the proofs of this already given may be mentioned, that Torell, in 
1861, at Shoal Point, met with a bean that had come from the Gulf of Mexico, 
the Entada gigantilobium. 
Am. Jour. Sct.—Srconp Series, Vou. XLVIII, No. 143.—Sept., 1869. 
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