TItUMPET WEEK. 



This contiiuicd until the evening uf the 18th, 



About nine a. win^n in latitude 23"^ 45' 

 <iontl], and longitude 2" 50' east, on the IGtb of 

 Febmaryj having fine weatlier and calins, and 

 light airs from «pfUft'-TOst, a large piece <5f tl>e 

 .^smdmf4& hm^&if or t^^pel^weed of the 

 Cape, measuring, probahlv, twelve or fourteen 

 feet in lengtli, floated f)v t!je sliip. ft is one of 

 that species of the marine flora, whieli may justly 

 be considered as giants. This specimen ^ji- 

 peat^, mr&tei mth tutlcmi^ ki»ds of crustacea, 

 which made me IP^^al 1 COi^d not procure it. 

 The long, tuberous stalk was nearly strip|i<Ml (1 

 suppose by the action of the waves) of its long, 

 flat, and expansive liwds* This is in fa\ oiir of 

 the e^rt^i wMeh m ^ted to set to tHe nmh^ 

 wM, betweea the Cape and St. Helena. We, 



however, have not experieneed any since the first 

 day we left the Cape, wht-n wr had on Th;iT day 

 sixteen miles of eurreut during tlie twenty-four 



On tktt fexllowlBg dfty, (17tii,) aiwitlieriwfic^ <rf 



the same kind of weed was seen at a short d^ 

 tance from the shijt ; and this was rhr last we 

 discerned, iiaving seen two specinieuSj one in the 



morning, the othe^* in the afetsrfiKmji of the pre- 



