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sid^rable de Faiiimal, augmente aussi les diflicultes a 

 le faire sortir du dredge sans etre dechire. Quoique 

 je fusse assez heureux pour le saisir avant qu'il sortait 

 de I'eau, et malgre toute la precaution possible, je 

 reussis seulement a conserver deux disques d'une paire 

 de bras fermes, mais a ceux-ci meme le peau etait 

 rompue. Quand I'animal est complet et coherent, 

 ainsi que je I'ai vu une ou deux fois sous I'eau dans 

 le dredge, il est v^ritablement un exemplaire de luxe, 

 une ' gloria maris.' "^ 



The bad weather was unrelenting, and again inter- 

 rupted us for a couple of days : we got a sounding 

 however on the 5th of September, in lat. 60° 30' N. 

 and long. 7° 16' W., with no bottom at 450 fathoms 

 and a minimum temperature about the freezing-point. 

 It will be seen by the chart that the last five stations, 

 Nos. 7 to 11, form an oblique line from south-east to 

 north-west between the northern part of Orkney and 

 the Paeroe Bank. The bottom is throughout a mixture 

 of gravel and sand, with patches of mud ; Nos. 7 and 8 

 principally the debris of the metamorphic rocks of 

 the north of Scotland ; Nos. 9, 10, and 11 chiefly 

 volcanic, the detritus of the Fseroe traps. This line 

 of soundings is entirely within what we afterwards 

 learned to call the ' co]d area,' the thermometer for 

 depths below 300 fathoms indicating a temperature 

 slightly above or below 0° 0. 



As we were now again approaching the Pseroe 

 fishing-banks, we shaped our course south Avards, and 

 on the morning of September 6th we sounded and 



1 Description d'un Nouveau Genre des Ast^ries, par P. Chr. Abs- 

 jornsen, in " Fauna littoralis Norvegise," by Dr. M. Sars, J. Koren, 

 and D. C. Danielssen. Seconds Livraison. Bergen, 1856, p. 96. 



