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to about 12 tons, 'from the Norfolk to the hold of 

 the Victoria. Strong wooden boxes were prepared, 

 in each of which fifteen of the small original boxes 

 of Ova, covered over with a considerable thickness 

 of Ice, and enveloped in blankets, were secured. 

 With commendable foresight these boxes were 

 fitted up so as to admit of their being at once slung 

 on bamboos, and thus carried by bearers from the 

 termination of the navigable portion of the Derwent 

 to the Ponds on the Plenty, a distance of nearly 

 four miles ; and this arrangement was, in practice, 

 found greatly to facilitate the conveyance of the 

 Ova over that part of the way. 



Thus prepared, eleven boxes containing 170 of 

 the original packages were carefully removed from 

 the Norfolk to the Victoria, and deposited in a part 

 of the hold least exposed to the injurious action of 

 the machinery, from which they were further pro- 

 tected by placing stuffed pads between the boxes. 



The remaining eleven boxes were retained by 

 the Acclimatisation Society, for the purpose of 

 being hatched in Melbourne, without exposing 

 them to the possible accidents and certain delay 

 involved in a second voyage, and to the tremor 

 caused by the action of the screw, from which Mr. 

 Youl, as well as the Commissioners, had appre- 

 hended considerable danger to the life of the Ova. 



In the presence of a large Ice manufactory, in 



