Antarctic Continent. 
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clous hill had passed from the frozen zone to a more 
temperate atmosphere above. 
Easterly from Mount Erebus, a deep saddle-like ridge 
descends gradually for about ten miles, when it again 
rises with equally regular gradations, forming the peak 
of Mount Terror, from 10,000 toll,000feet in altitude, and 
distant from Mount Erebus about twenty miles. It is 
evident from the quantity of ejected matter, and from the 
numerous dark patches seen on and around its summit, 
that it also must have been in a state of eruption very 
lately. There are besides many rounded hummocks 
along its eastern border, which, being there comparatively 
free from snow and ice, must likewise be in a heated state. 
It is from this heated land that the enormous barrier 
takes its rise; a field of ice extending 350 miles E. and 
by S., and not less than 150 feet in perpendicular height 
above the level of the sea, perfectly smooth of surface, 
and apparently without any break throughout its whole 
extent. But upon the physical peculiarities of this 
region, which appears to me to present the most extra¬ 
ordinary phenomena we have met with, I cannot now 
enlarge; and, as our persevering and daring commanders 
were for a time defeated by the vast obstacles which it 
opposed to their progress, I doubt not that I shall be 
fully pardoned for bringing these remarks to a con¬ 
clusion. 
Art. VI. Notes on the Coasts of Australia. By Cap¬ 
tain Stokes, of H.M.S. Beagle. 
We left Sydney in the course of May, 1841, and, having 
rounded Breaksea Spit on June 3rd, visited Halifax Bay, 
where a large estuary was supposed to exist, of which we 
found nothing. The country appeared to be a rich and 
