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seemed so auspicious, that I was induced to extend my researches a 

 day or two, believing it would meet your approbation. 



As I advanced westward, the marks of the approach to land were 

 becoming too plain to admit a doubt. The constant and increasing 

 noise of penguins and seals, the dark and discoloured aspect of the 

 ocean, with frequent huge masses of black frozen earth identified 

 therewith, strongly impressed me with the belief that a positive result 

 would arise in the event of a possibility to advance a few miles 

 further south. 



On the afternoon of the 13th, I landed and extracted from an im- 

 mense mass of black earth identified with the barrier, some hundreds 

 of yards back from the margin, specimens of rock corresponding to 

 those previously obtained. At sunset of the 13th, one hundred and 

 fifty-one icebergs, all assuming a discoloured and earthy appearance, 

 were counted from deck. 



At 6 a. m. of the 14th, the wind having set in from the northwest, I 

 stood back along the barrier on my return, hauling in to the south- 

 ward, and making it within the meridians of 120° and 130° E., being 

 a portion which escaped my personal observation, arising from incle- 

 ment weather. 



I had reached the meridian of 100° 07' 40" E., latitude 64° 15' S. 

 I attempted to close with the barrier on the 24th, in order to procure 

 a supply of ice, being reduced to a half-gallon allowance of water ; 

 after several unsuccessful attempts, owing to rough and foggy weather, 

 I concluded to proceed north, in conformity with my instructions, and 

 at 2 p. m. bore up in a gale from northwest ; the wind prevailing heavy 

 from that quarter gradually carried me near the Lord Auckland Isles, 

 passing the last iceberg in latitude in 55° 24' S., longitude 148° 37' E. 



I availed myself of your suggestion, — put in and anchored on the 

 night of the 7th of March in the harbour of Sarah's Bosom. I pro- 

 cured a supply of wood and water, and sailed again on the afternoon 

 of the 10th. The sketch of the island in my possession, though not 

 entirely correct, is sufficiently so to guide a vessel safely to the 

 anchorage. I proceeded to this place, passing to the eastward of 

 New Zealand, — strong northeast winds prolonging the passage. 



I spoke the American whale-ship Mary and Martha, Coffin, master, 

 of Plymouth, Massachusetts, off Cook's Straits, on the night of the 17th 

 instant : twenty-seven months out ; twenty-two hundred barrels of oil ; 

 reported at least one hundred ships engaged on the east coast in the 

 fisheries. 



The weather during the cruise has been attended with great variety, 



