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REVIEW. 
snows, which, at low temperatures and in times of high 
wind, were hardly distinguishable from the driftings 
of former snow-fields. It was not until our closing 
month, with one exception, that the snow fell in the 
lamiliar flakes of home. All these tended to modify 
the aspect of our surface, rounding off edges, and fill- 
ing up interstitial cavities ; while those frozen vesicles, 
with modifications of the hexagon form, which I have 
alluded to as accompanying our parheliac and coronal 
phenomena, also contributed their share. 
Thus, then, we continued drifting toward the south, 
sharing the movements of the icy system of which we 
were the centre, and only conscious of motion by the 
observation of that greater system which shone out 
above us. With March came a renewal of the ice- 
openings, and animal life, so long suspended, came 
back to us. The first bird seen was a diver ( O. Sep- 
tmtrionalis), still in his winter plumage. On the same 
day we saw several seal. As the openings increased 
to rivers, and began to permeate the great pack more 
thoroughly, the narwhal and beluga, and, in two in- 
stances, the mysticetus, or right whale of the whalers, 
began to resort to them. The Laridae, represented 
by the ivory, kittiwake, and the Burgomaster gulls, 
screamed over the floes. Our old friends, the moUe- 
mokes, fed once more upon the garbage around the 
vessels. The predatory jager (ies^m j:?arasiifica) soon 
joined them. Bears stalked about in numbers, accom- 
panied by their satellites, the white foxes. 
I have spoken of the first renewal of migratory life, 
as seen in that familiar little fringillide, the snow- 
bird. In company with the Plectrophanes, they crowd- 
ed around our ships at a very early day ; but it was 
only in the second week of May that the great Arc- 
