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1894 
February 20 
At Sea on Steamer "Madiana 11 . 
Noon observation: Lat. SS'.'SO; long. 66"53; run 293 miles. 
10 A, M . A summer sky and. a summer sea yet both 
different from anything ever seen at the North; the sky 
very pale , tender blue with cumulus clouds, many of which 
are delicate rose or salmon as if it were near sunset instead 
of mid-forenoon. The sea is much bluer than it was yes¬ 
terday — a deep yet perfectly pure indigo. It is just 
ruffled by a gentle breeze. Near at hand the surface is 
undulating with short, irregular swells, which run in every 
direction, meeting and heaping up sharp ridges and peaks 
but in the distance it looks as level as the surface of a 
pond and the horizon line is clear and firm. There is 
more Gulf weed than yesterday but it seems to be more 
broken up; few of the fragments are larger than a dinner 
plate and none more than two or three yards across, but 
they dot the water so thickly that scarce a square rod is 
free from them. The color is the same as that of those 
seen ye sterday but it is said to become purer yellow fur¬ 
ther to the southward. No Portuguese Men-o’-war this morning. 
A Dusky Shearwater ( Puffinus auduboni ) has just 
passed, half-a.-mile or more away. Save for its smaller size 
and perhaps quicker motions, it resembled very closely the 
Greater Shearwater ( Puff inus ma.ior ). It is the first that 
I have ever seen 
