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Rock has sonorous decomposing white externally in large angular fragments.─ parallel line of cleavage run ENE & WSW─ in a conical peak─ consecutive by ridges E 1/2 N W 1/3; I should think phonolitic rather than greenstone─

Hornblende & feldspar crystalline a various proportion:

On bottom of hills ─

916: 917 commonest marl with pyrites

918 much Hornblende firm grained

919 much [illeg] in [illeg] crystal & hornblend [illeg] : Turn of Kater peak

920 ─ less marked crystals ─ from very summit of Kater peak & probably surrounding cour

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Examine texture of aluminium Limestone

921 ─ Piece of impure formation with much Iron resembling [haesurite] of Plymouth in fragment on beach Wigwam cove ─ : in considerable quantities

some few Aularch Beech

nearly the same algren plants: ?? (What angle does Kater peak subtern Wigan Cove??

Decr 28th ─ Jerdan Island & Northern parts of Hermit Island Greenstone in the lower parts the rocks have by far most & most regular cleavage even so as to become slaty hills, all conical with curved sides; specimens decompose externally reddish brown: = Mr Sorrell says [Meanes] & Pumice Sandwich land. Mr. Weddell in S. Shetland Tales ─ Read & Ask

["Sorrell, Thomas, 1797-? Was on all three Beagle voyages. 1832 Jul. Acting Boatswain on 2d voyage of the Beagle." Paul van Helvert & John van Wyhe, Darwin: A Companion, 2021, p. 401.
James Weddell, 1825. A Voyage Towards the South Pole: Performed in the Years 1822-24, etc. London.]

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The whole of Hermit Island in characters by their peaks: one necessarily attribute their origin at first sight to something different from the neighbouring rocks at Wollaston Island with its castellate summit

Find out general soundings amongst the Hermit Islands & the external bank mentioned by Cap FitzRoy; The outer rocks as at False Cape Horn, much weathered: but the inlets although exposed in a direct line to the open ocean yet does not young show that waves do not enter deeper water always very smooth:─

The resemblance of the summit of Katers peak is its chemical constitution much resembles Phonolite (as Ter Noronha) no less in its sonorous & tough properties: its numerous cleavage & its isolated peaks.─ it is a fine transition from one to,─ other rocks:─

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= From Captains views no slate on the outer coast ─ & till better information it will be best to conclude the whole W [illeg] as primitive & of separate origin form by Hermit group= Diego Ramirez