23 July 1855 – 29 July 1855

Many little toads about. That piece of hollow kelp stem which I brought from the Cape is now shrivelled up and is covered and all white with crystals of salt a sixth of an inch long, like frost, on all sides.! Morrhua vulgaris is the cod of Europe and New- foundland. Those ane « off our coast are the M. Americana.