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served; its length was four feet four inches; the i sgi . 
head very small; it had neither fins nor gills, 
and respired like land- snakes; on each scale 
was a rough ridge : it did not appear to be ve- 
nomous. A shark was also taken, eleven feet 
long; and many curious specimens of Crustacea 
and medusa were obtained by the towing-net. 
Some of the latter were so diaphanous, as to be 
perfectly invisible when immersed in the water. 
Among the former were a species of ‘phyllosoma, 
and the alima hi/alina of Leach 
At daylight we were about four leagues to the 
W.N. W. of Captain Baudin’s Colbert Island ; at 
the back of which were seen some patches of 
the Coronation Islands. The night was passed 
at anchor off the northernmost Coronation Island, 
and the following afternoon we anchored at about 23. 
half a mile from the sandy beach of Careening 
Bay. 
As soon as the vessel was secured, we visited 
the shore, and recognised the site of our last 
year’s encampment, which had suffered no al- 
teration, except what had been occasioned by 
a rapid vegetation : a sterculia, the stem of which 
had served as one of the props of our mess-tent, 
and to which we had nailed a sheet of copper 
* Cancer vitreus. Banks and Solander MSS. Lin. Gmel. tom. i. 
p. 2991. Astacus vitreus, Fabr. Syst. ent. p. 417. n. 8. 
