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The "peat," so-called, was thick, but rone that X caw or walked ove 
quite three feat thick, nor was the moso co unbroken* Where the mono grew 
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over and down the sides of a boulder or heap of rocks. It night easily give 
one the impression of being a nos3 clump or heap three feet thick. It was 
thick, all right, catch of It was dead or looked so underneath. There were 
breaks and gaps in the patch as a whole, but there wore no extensive gaps 
or large areas on the slope here of mica - quite a aignt* 
Two dredge hauls nude at our Galindos Island anchorage, in 29 io kZ 
fathoms, and results combined into one. They brought up a portion of a 
ilicious sponge, a number of worms, starfish ophiurans, a red sea-urchin and 
the first crinoifi of the cruise, a gasieropod molluck, and a number of lo: 
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tall- od as c Id ions» A second specimen of the corse species of cricoid was 
four." in mud attached to the anchor when it was raised on 31 January. 
The fish traps disappointed ue, no fish, uraertean worms, a : d 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 hotter luck. We had drawn a blank, an regards fish in Arthur 
Harbc the first time around. It was the second at Arthur Harbor that turned 
up 
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This cron with its : ay islands and its nearby "deeps" and channels 
(Lemaire) to undoubtedly a very rich cne biologically. For a possible 
satellite station in this area a site with a good boat shelter should be 
eelected. Winter Island - Stella Creek where the Persia wintered, Peter- 
raann Island where Charcot holed up in 1902, or possibly Cape Tiucen at 
which another look might be had for faunal and floral growths - 1 
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