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The "peat," ©o«caXled, wae thick, but nojse that I saw or walked over was 
quite tliree feet thick, nor was the laoes so uifl>roken. Where the laose grew 
over and down the sides of a boulder or heap of rocks. It might easily give 
one the ireppession of being a moss clusap or heap three feet thick. It was 
thick, all ri^t, much of it was dead or looked so underneath. There weare 
breaks and gaps in the patch as a whole, but there were no extensive gaps 
or large areas on the slope bare of miss » quite a sight J 
Two dredge hauls made at our Galindez IbImsoA anchorage, in 25 ro k2 
fathoms, and results coshined into one. They brou^t up a portion of a 
alliclous sponge, a nuntoer of worms, starfish ophiurans, a red sea-urchin and 
the first crinoid of the cruise, a gasteropod siolluek, and a nunfcer of long- 
stalked ascidians, A second specimen of the same species of crlEK3id was 
f oui»3 in 
attached to the anchor when it was raised on 31 January. 
The fish traps disappointed us, no f ish, Wteiertean wonas, a few, and a 
starfish,— the cove by the Base landing was evidently a poor location for 
catching fish. Had there been time a second set in another location might 
have brought us better luck. We bad drawn a blank as re^^rds fish in Arthur 
Harbor tlie first tirj® around. It was the second at Arthur Harbor that turned 
up the best catch of the cruise. 
This area with its marQr islands and its nearby "deeps” euad channels 
(l^Ealre) is undoubtedly a very rich one biologically. For a ix>66lble 
satellite station in this area a site with a good boat shelter should be 
selected. Winter Island - Stella Creek wtiere the Penola wintered, Peter- 
mann Island where Charcot holed up in 1902, or possibly Cape Tvtxen at 
which another look might be had for faunal and floral growths - it is 
