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of Leach), one of which I shot. It was a young 
animal, not larger than a rabbit. The eyes were 
of a brown colour. The fur was extremely fine 
and soft; the colour entirely white. The flesh 
was remarkably fair and well flavoured. It proved 
the most delicious eating of any of the produce of 
the polar countries I ever tasted. The insects 
were numerous, consisting of mosquitoes, and se¬ 
veral species of butterflies. 
The heat among the rocks was most oppressive; 
so much so, that my excursion was greatly con¬ 
tracted, and my research limited, by the painful 
languor which the uncommonly high temperature 
produced. Unfortunately I had no thermometer 
with me, but I think the temperature could not 
be below 70°: to my feelings, it was equal to the 
greatest heat of summer in England. Its effect 
on the vegetation was indeed so great, that most 
of the plants met with had already seeded, and 
some were quite dried and decayed. 
Jameson's Land , it lias been observed, is of a 
totally different appearance and character, from 
any other polar lands that I have seen. At a 
distance, it appears low, and undulating, and of 
a light-brown colour: while all the surrounding 
coasts, with the exception of Perspective Itidge, 
are rugged, mountainous, and of a blackish-brown 
colour.^ And what rendered it still more strik- 
