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We anchored on the hank and the fishing-lines were
soon ont, hnt we were very unfortunate, for only one
or two ‘ snappers ’ were taken. Early on the morning
of the 23rd the surveying boats left the ship to
sound out the h a n k ; it was cold, blustering, u n pleasant
weather witli a falling barometer and rising
wind. During tlie day we sent the jolly-boat away
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to lower the small dredge a couple of hundred yards
or so from the ship ; the dredge was then slowly
dragged to the ship by the donkey-engine. The bank,
which seems to he ahout five miles across, consists
mainly of large rounded pebbles of the substance of
the Bermudas ‘ Serpuline reef.’ There is an abundant
growth all over the pebbles of the pretty little
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