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cations of more favourable weather, and of the 

 approach of spring ; some of the harbingers of 

 which, belonging to the vegetable kingdom, were 

 already in full bloom ; such as Anemo7ie hortensis, 

 Parietaria judaica, Flantago suhulata and Coron- 

 opus, Ornithogalum umbellatum, Muscari comosum 

 and racemosiim, Ix'ia Bulbocodium, Ranunculus 

 muricatus and parvijiorus, and some others. The 

 season being still so cold, hardly any animals were 

 to be found except a Testacella Europcea, the 

 Scorpio Italicus, and the more common marine 

 animals, such as Aplysia depilans, Holothuria 

 elegans, some fish and medusae. 



The meteorological phenomena here were not 

 very different from those observed at Triest. The 

 barometer was at 27° H'*- Reaumur's thermometer 

 in the air was, in the morning, never above 8° ; at 

 noon, 10'' — 11''; in the evening, 6° — ^7° • the 

 water, in the morning, 8°— 9"" ; at noon, 9° — 10° ; 

 in the evening, 8° to 8° 5\ The specific gravity of 

 the sea water was 1.0372. The whalebone hy- 

 grometer stood between 39° and 48°. 



The naval officer, who had been sent from Pola 

 to Venice, to bring a nev/ bowsprit from the arsenal, 

 and make inquiry respecting the fate of our con- 

 sort, the frigate Augusta, of which we could obtain 

 no information on the solitary coast of Istria, re- 

 turned in a few days, with the bowsprit, and the 

 news that the Augusta, after losing all her masts, 

 sails, and boats, had sought shelter in the island of 



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