CAPE WEBUC. l8l 



on my throwing a stone at him lie dropped his egg and 

 scampered off. I hallooed for nearly ten minutes for 

 some one with a gun to come and shoot hiin, and kept 

 him in sight ; with more of curiosity than fear he would 

 stop at intervals to look at me, keeping a safe distance 

 off and barking, until he disappeared. Soon Mr. Was- 

 son came up ; we pursued finding him on the other side 

 of the island with another egg in his mouth. Mr. Was- 

 son gave him his death-wound, though he ran some 

 distance with the egg between his teeth before he 

 dropped dead. His flanks and belly were white, the 

 rest of a slate-blue color, his legs very long, and tail long 

 though not very bushy ; the more remarkable features 

 were his short, rounded ears, as if cropped. Mr. Wasson 

 also shot a Labradorian falcon, which Professor Baird 

 afterward wrote him he thought might be an immature 

 stage of Falco candicans. On this exposed spot the 

 cloud-berry .had nearly done flowering ; the cochlearia, 

 growing from two to six inches high, was in bloom, 

 while a pretty, gentian-like flower was found here which 

 was not observed elsewhere. 



We laid to all the short night, as Mr. Bradford wanted 

 to paint icebergs, getting up at three the next morning 

 to secure some noble ones. Then we soon ran down 

 and doubled Cape Webuc or Harrison, which is a lofty 

 gneiss headland, faced with syenite, its northern face 

 seamed with vertical trap dykes with an N.E. and S.W. 

 direction. Ragged Island now bears N.N.W., and, 

 as its name implies, is exceedingly rough and jagged, 

 and evidently composed of syenite, as are nearly all 

 these headlands, being probably outflows of crystaUine 

 rocks capping the Laurentian gneiss. We next came 



