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Remarks on the New Sotith Shetland Manrk. 

 During one of those calms which most generally succeed to the 

 celebrated "Pamparos" along the coast of Patagonia, the seamen 

 employed themselves in catching some of the fine bottom fish, 

 that are so abundantly to be obtained after making m lin 

 They comprise chiefly the whole of Cuvier's family of Gadites. 

 On examining the contents of the stomach of several of an undc- 

 scribed species of Phycis, 1 was struck by the resemblance of 

 some Crustacea that I obtained, to the Paradoxus holioni, fig- 

 ured and described in the fourth volume of the Journal of the 

 Adademy of Natural Science of Philadelphia. On referring to 

 that work, which I fortunately had on board, I was convinced 

 that this animal came nearer to the long lost family of Trilobites 

 than any thing hitherto discovered. They were scarcely more 



'J'hat part wbich particularly attracted my attention, was the lu- 

 nate markings on the head of Dr. Bigsby's figure, corresponding 

 in a wonderful manner, both in form and situation, to the eyes of 

 this animal, although the fossil is represented as being deficient 



bites were destitute of eyes, the circumstance of their never hav- 

 ing been found in some of the few fragments that we possess any 



eyes ai« cAuciueiy siiiuu miu buuuiku on lue external margin ol 

 the head, very near to its edge : had but a small portion of this 

 part of the shell been mutilated, we should have been put to no 

 small difficulty in assigning to them organs of vision. 



After landing at sevenil places along the coast and spending 

 some days at Staiiten Land, we proceeded to the new South-Shet- 



tude, and west longitude 54 and 63. They are formed by an ex- 

 tensive cluster of rocks rising abruptly from the ocean, to a con- 

 siderable height above its surface. Their true elevation cannot 

 easily be determined, in consequence of the heavy masses of snow 

 which lie over them, concealing them almost entirely from the 

 sight. Some of them however, rear their glistening summits to an 

 altitude of about three thousand feet, and when the heavens are free 

 from clouds, imprint a »harp and well defined outline upon the in- 

 tense blueness of the sky : they arc divided every where by straits 



