s 
aire Si nod 
Commission during the summer. The disk of another spe 
_ of Monhegan Island (station 5 being fifteen miles peat of Monhegan Islan 
_ from fifty-eight to seventy-two fathoms soft mud, with a bottom tenpe i 
146 EXPLORATION OF THE GULF OF MAINE. 
. . . aye ae) ee 
It now remained to explore some interesting localities within 
George’s Bank, and at a distance from the coast. 
southwest of Jeffrey’s Bank ; of ee, “Ledge, a northeastern — 
submarine prolongation of Cape Ann; and Stellwagen’s Bank, a 
northerly exteision of Cape Cod. As intermediate points were 
investigated, the series of dredgings may be regarded as conducted — a 
along six main lines, running out rany from the shore between 
Portland and Cape Cod. 
On the 2d of September, the “Bache,” witii Lieut: Jaqi tem- 
porarily in corhmand, left Peak’s Island, Casco Bay, the head- 
quarters of Professor Baird and his associates, and made a harbor 
for the night at Boothbay. Early the next morning we ran out 
-and dredged about “ Monhegan Falls,” in sixty fathoms, searching 
with dredge, tangle and trawl for the arctic coral (Primnoa lepa- 
difera), a species of sea fan which grows about three feet in 
height. It is occasionally met with in the fiords of Norway ata 
depth of three hundred fathoms, while fishermen have been 
to find it on the ground known as ‘* Monhegan Falls,” and a speci- 
men two feet high, from George’s Bank, is now in the museum 
the Peabody Academy of Science. Our efforts to find it were, 
~ Rowevery, unavailing. wee 
e then ran out to Jeffrey’s Bank and trawled in oii 
fathoms, bringing up a fine Comatula (Antedon Sarsii), a near | 
of the crinoids; this was the first specimen taken by- thes 
E * In stations 1,2,3, 4 and d 5 of my notes thin ten to fifteen miles 
43° occurred either at one or another r station, though mostly in station 5, | 
- fathoms, the following —Nymphon giga rustacea, Hippolyte spina, 
pinguis, a ii, St pulla, Anthura brachiata. 
lus am An 
ta, Eunoa Œr stedii, ‘Wephebye ingens, N. ciliata, Ninoe mg 
concen, N- opalina Verr., Goniada aaral, Trophonia aspera, 
Gia | bricalis, 
æti Nicoma 
gracitie, Terebrellides Stroemi, Melinna cristata, , 
s Gunneri, Myxic trupi, Chætoderma nitidulum, Priapulus 
cæmentarium and Meckelia lurida Verr. ' Among the ie nn 
` ais 
N. pellucida, P. Periploma papyracea, Astarte lens, Yoldia 
and ind oie Among Tunicates, cna ge ; . Among Hobinoderny 
» Schi pag Gh seventy-two fathoms onl 
nida hispida, 
