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themselves of this high and eteep-sided peak to colonize its uttermost 
heights^ 93 S feet above the seal Most of the road upwards for those that 
had not settled on the foreshore was over a small steep-to snow field 
lying shoreward of the bare crest of the "saddle" between the peak of 
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the Cape and the ice sheet, or cap, further to the north of it. 
# 27-63 Tyo dredge hauls were made on February 5> the first at the Base 0, 
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Banco Island, in 4l finw.; the second at the anchorage in Errera Channel 
nearer Couverville in ^6 fras. At both the bottom was nK>re or less rocky 
and very much alike in their sampling of the channel bottom animl life; 
Echinoderms predominated, many ophlurans, a few starfish, and a dozen or 
laore red sea-urchins. In the second haul were several forms of animal life 
not found in the first, a lar^ nereid worm, a number of bryozoan fragments, 
and what made re want to let out a cheer, a hippolytid shrimp, the first 
and, as it proved to be later, the only decapod crustacean taken on this 
cruise. white starfish ease up on the anchor at the first of our 
anchorages of this day, A small silver-sided fish, also unique in our 
collections, 6 inches long, apparently dropped by some bird, was picked up on 
Couverville by Lt. Hash while ashore surveying a possible site. Ho really 
suitable site for a station of any size seems available either here or at 
Cape Spigot unless one wants to bed down with the penguins. The possibility 
of finding ei^ce enough for some small shelter on the natural breakwater on 
the east side of Couverville was mentioned above. The only need would be 
for penguin studies, the marine fauna would be a ^ob for a vessel hereabouts, 
and Chinetraps migiit be more conveniently studied in Paradise Harbor if and 
when one mi^t acquire the Argentine Base there; and as we learned later, at 
Deception Islands. 
