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the Antarctic Regions . 
this wall of ice has its attachment to land at the back of 
it, but receding to too great a distance to become visible 
over it. 
The white petrel seemed to have chosen this as 
its favourite haunt, with only an occasional solitary 
raptorial gull to intrude upon its icy domain. Whales, 
apparently the Southern Rorqual, were here very 
numerous, spouting in all directions; and many seals 
and penguins were seen on the ice. 
On returning on the 2nd of March, in the 68th degree 
of latitude and the 169th of longitude, we passed within 
sight of Balleny’s Land, which, in all probability, is 
of the same igneous formation as the rest of the land 
to the southward ; the whole of which bears every indi¬ 
cation of having emerged from the deep within a com¬ 
paratively recent period of time. 
On the 7th of April we anchored in the Derwent, 
after an absence of five months. 
Art. II. Moral and Social Characteristics of'the Abo¬ 
rigines of Tasmania , as gathered from Intercourse with 
the surviving Remnant of them now located on Flinders 
Island. By the Rev. T. Dove, late of Flinder’s 
Island. 
The Aborigines of Tasmania have, undoubtedly, strong 
claims on the benevolent regards of the Colonists, as 
the primitive occupants of the soil which now so amply 
repays the labour and capital which are expended in its 
cultivation. 
On this ground, their title to British protection and 
support has been fully and honourably recognised : and 
even while the policy which demands their extrusion 
from their native land (the remembrance of which is yet 
