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2.

To Madeira

August

Casting net took several specimens of Medusa Pelagica; (V. Drawing No. 1) whose different motions in swimming amus'd us very much: among the appendages to this animal we found also a new species of oniscus (V. No. 2). We took also another animal, quite different from any we had Ever seen (V. No. 3) it was of an angular figure, about 3 inches long & one thick, with a hollow passing quite through it. On one end was a Brown spot, which might be the stomach of the animal.

Four of these, the whole number that we took, adherd together when taken by their sides; so that at first we imagind them to be one animal, but upon being put into a glass of water they very soon separated & swam briskly about the water.

29. Wind foul: Morning employd in finishing the Drawings of the animals taken yesterday till the ship got so much motion that Mr Parkinson could not set to his Pencil; in the Evening wind still Fresher so much as to make the night very uncomfortable.

30. Wind still Foul, ship in violent motion, but towards Evening much more quiet:

 

 

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