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showed no appearance of coming into flower. 
Near the shore, I saw several different sorts of 
the duck tribe, and, especially, a number of the 
eider fowl. Cormorants were abundant. Cast upon 
the beach, were scarcely any but the more com¬ 
mon sea-weeds of Scotland, as Fucus palmatus , 
eseulentus , digit atm , ciliatus , dent atm , purpu - 
raseenSy saccharinus , and a variety of the latter 
with a twisted frond, plumosus , jlagelliformis, 
rubens, and Conferva fceniculacea of Hudson. 
Fucus ramentaceus , which has hitherto been 
found nowhere but in Iceland, was the only 
rare species, and this was here in great plenty. 
Some of these were growing in the basins among 
the rocks. Of shells there were very few. I 
remarked a large Balanus, which seemed to me 
new. It is well figured in Povelsen and Olafsen’s 
Voyage, plate 14, but I cannot, anywhere, find 
a description of it. My a t rune at a, Venus is - 
landica, and a beautiful, but to me unknown, 
species of Lepas, a Bulla , and a few Tur¬ 
bines, were the only other shells I met with. 
Land-birds are extremely rare. All that I saw 
in this walk were Ravens, the Snow Bunting 
(here called Snoe-fugle), which has rather a 
pleasant note, not much unlike the Linnet’s, 
but more interrupted, Snipes, and the com¬ 
mon Wagtail. 
