Page:Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Volume 1 (2nd edition).djvu/249

This page needs to be proofread.

Captain Beechey's Voyage.

221

Miatea	Peak on it	1432.3	Trig. m.
Beering's Strait	Cape Lisburn	849	Dip of the sea.
Kotzebue Sound	Chamisso Island	231	Ditto.
{{{1}}}„	Hill N. of Spafarief Bay	616	Ditto.
Society Islands	Peak with a hole (Eimeo)	404.1	Trig. m.
San Francisco	Angel Island	900.7	Barometer.
{{{1}}}„	Deviation (Balbones)	378.3	Trig. m.
{{{1}}}„	Yerba Buena Island	513.8	Ditto.
{{{1}}}„	Hill at Yerba Buena Cove	467.2	Ditto.
Island of Assumption, Ladrones.	Summit of the Cone	2096	Ditto.
Botel Tobago Xima	Peak at W. Angle	1817	Base at sea.
{{{1}}}„	Peak at N.E. Angle exceeded this altitude by about 30 feet.
Loo Choo	Onnodake Mount	1089	Trig. m.
{{{1}}}„	Abbey Point	98.4	Dip of the horizon.
{{{1}}}„	Kumi Head	99.8	Ditto.
Petropaulski	Villeuchinski (Sugar-Loaf)	7374	Trig. m.
{{{1}}}„	Avatcha Mountain, N. by E. of the town $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	1149.1	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$ Trig. operation on shore.
		1161.2
		1149.6
Cape Lisburn	Flint Station	849.3	Dip of the horizon.
Kotzebue Sound	Hill N. of Spafarief Bay	616	Ditto.
{{{1}}}„	Chamisso Island	231	Ditto.
Port Clarence	High Snowy Mountain	2596	Trig. m.
San Blas	Commandant's House	141	Dip of the horizon.
{{{1}}}„	San Juan Paps $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	6216	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$ Trig. m.
{{{1}}}„		6230
Calima Mount		1200.3	Ditto.

Fossil Bones.—The supposed discovery of fossil bones imbedded in the ice of Escholtz Bay, in West Georgia, had excited much interest among naturalists, both on account of the antiquity which it gave to ice formations, and the light which such a discovery was calculated to throw on the state of the climate of the arctic regions at the time when they were thickly inhabited by genera of the largest quadrupeds. But (as before observed) the visit of the Blossom to these shores has demonstrated that the supposed ice formation is only a casing occurring on the face of a cliff, of from twenty to eighty feet in height, and rising inland to a rounded range of hills, between four and five hundred feet above the sea. The geognostic structure of these cliffs is a bluish-coloured mud or clay, corresponding in character to our