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I'urlu I'raya -Kilicira (naiulL Almu.^ijliuric lJu.5l \ml1i Infuburia- Ilabiu of a Sca- 

 ^luj; and (.'ulllc'-lish — Si. I'aul'.s Kocks, non-volcanic — Singular Incrustations — 

 liisL-cls the first Coluiiisls of lilandi — Fernando Noronha — lialiia — Burnished 

 Rocks — Habits of a Diudon — Pekigic Cunfur\L'j and Infusoria — Causes of dis- 

 coloured Sea. 



ST. 



I.VGO CAI'K DE VERU ISLANDS 



After ha\iii,i; been twice drixcn back b)' l:ca\)- south-western 

 gales, llei- Majest>-'s .sliip Bciyg/c, a ten-gun brig, under the 

 command (jf Captain h'itz l\.o_\', K.N., sailed from Devonport 

 (jii the 27th of December 1S31. The object of the expedi- 

 tion was to complete the sur\ey of Patagonia and Tierra del 

 I'uego, commenced imder Ca[)tain King in 1S26 to 1S30 — to 

 sur\e)' the shores of Chile, Peru, tind of some islands in the 

 Pacific —and to carrv ,t chain of chronomctrical measurements 

 |-ouiid the World. On the Gth of January we reached Tcneriffc, 

 but were prevented landing, by fears of our bringing the cholera: 

 the ne.xt morning we saw the stin rise behind the rugged outline 

 of the Grand Canary Island, ;ind suddeiil)- illumine the Peak of 



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