360 GREENLAND VOYAGE. 
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In the afternoon, within six leagues of Myn- 
geness, we passed through a number of little 
patches of a dark brown water; different, however, 
both in tint, and in the form of the patches, from 
that seen on the 1st. Some of our sailors, who 
had been employed in the herring fishery, attri¬ 
buted it to herrings or to herring-spawn. A large 
net (that v-as constructed for the purpose of col¬ 
lecting marine insects by an obliging female 
friend), being put overboard, as we passed through 
one of the brown patches, caught a number of 
medusae, a small star fish, and two shrimps. One 
of the medusae was a small species, resembling in 
shape and dimensions, the thimble used for sew¬ 
ing ; but with this difference, the tube was com¬ 
pressed instead of being cylindrical. The star 
fish was gelatinous. It was scarcely the size of 
a hazel-nut. It had, I believe, eight rays, with 
a gelatinous sack appended to the radiating pqint. 
Besides these animals taken up by the net, there 
were multitudes of large medusas, from six to nine 
inches in diameter, in the w ater. The chief kind 
was the M. purpura. 
In the evening, the wind coming to NW b W., 
and blowing fresh, we tacked to the southward ; 
and, under a pressure of canvas, succeeded in 
\veathering the Faroe Islands. 
i he tops of the higher cliffs pf Ivalsoc and 
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