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one another and with the beach moraine, extended far out from the shore like partly sunken reefs.
The pebbles and boulders of these ridges were not local, or, at least, only partially so; they had the same geological character as those of the drift material throughout the Strait.
The day was favorable for work, and there was little to remind one of approaching winter.
A creek of fresh water, that ran out upon one part of the beach, led up to a romantic brook, rushing down through a gorge bordered by moss-grown trees and carpeted by ferns and lichens in all its nooks and corners.
This brook took its rise in a small lake lying some half a mile behind the beach.
The collections made along the shore in this excursion were large and various: star-fish, volutas, sea-urchins, sea-anemones, medusae, doris; many small fishes, also, from the tide-pools, beside a number drawn in the seine.
Later in the day, when the party had assembled around the beach fire for rest and refreshment, before returning to the vessel, their lunch was interrupted by strange and unexpected guests.
A boat rounded the point of the beach, and, as it came nearer, proved to be full of Fuegian natives, men, women, children,
Houghton, Mifflin and company, New York, Boston, 1885.
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