THE 
TASMANIAN JOURNAL 
OF 
NATURAL SCIENCE. 
Art. I. A Sketch of the Antarctic Regions , embracing 
a few passing Remarks , Geological and Ornithological . 
13y Robert M‘Cormick, Esq., Surgeon of H.M.S. 
Erebus. 
As we expect to sail to-morrow on our return to the ice, 
with the probability that many months will elapse ere 
the Expedition will have any opportunity of communi¬ 
cating with Tasmania again, the following general ob¬ 
servations on our former voyage to the southward, hastily 
written amid the hurry of preparation for sea, are now 
transmitted, rather as a pledge of the writer's good 
wishes than for anything they may have in themselves to 
recommend them, beyond the interest which even the 
most superficial glance at new lands in remote regions 
will never fail to create. 
After our departure from the Derwent, on the 12th 
November, 1840, the first places visited by the Expedi- 
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