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land upon, Mrs. Johnson and I did not have our walk 
on shore. The two parties started with daylight and 
at about four o’clock in the afternoon Agassiz and his 
companions returned. He was on the top wave of life, 
so happy with the results of his day. You know geo- 
logically he is seeking for glacial phenomena, and on 
their way to a hill between the shore and Mt. Aymond 
to which Pourtalés and his party had gone, Agassiz 
had come upon a terminal moraine having all the char- 
acteristic features, built of glacier-worn boulders, 
pebbles and stones of all sorts and sizes packed into 
a paste of earth. It had been pushed up evidently 
by a mass of ice advancing from the southward, the 
southern slope being steep as is always the case with 
the side of the moraine turned towards the glacier, 
while the northern slope was more gradual. He also 
found a salt pond some two hundred feet above the 
level of the sea with moraine shells living in it. This 
will please Darwin if he does not already know it, be- 
cause it illustrates a statement he made many years 
ago that the geology of this coast was connected with 
upheaval. The whole party came back in a state of 
great elation, looking like a company of Nimrods, 
loaded with game, ducks, snipe, cormorants, a fox 
and a skunk, the smell of which made me quite home- 
sick, it recalled so vividly certain summer evenings 
at Nahant. It may be interesting to you as a scientific 
fact to know that skunks smell in Patagonia exactly 
as they do in New England. In order that the birds 
might be prepared we deferred dinner till six o’clock 
and had it made ready in great style with a centre 
