According to von Buch the mean temperature of July (not the hottest month in the year) at Saltenfiord in Norway, is as high as 57.8 degrees, and this place is actually 13 degrees nearer the pole than Port Famine! (11/8.

With respect to Tierra del Fuego, the results are deduced from the observations of Captain King "Geographical Journal" 1830, and those taken on board the "Beagle." For the Falkland Islands, I am indebted to Captain Sulivan for the mean of the mean temperature (reduced from careful observation at midnight, 8 A.M., noon, and 8 P.M.) of the three hottest months, namely, December, January, and February.

The temperature of Dublin is taken from Barton.) Inhospitable as this climate appears to our feelings, evergreen trees flourish luxuriantly under it.
Humming-birds may be seen sucking the flowers, and parrots feeding on the seeds of the Winter's Bark, in latitude 55 degrees south.

I have already remarked to what a degree the sea swarms with living creatures; and the shells (such as the Patellae, Fissurellae, Chitons, and Barnacles), according to Mr.G.B.Sowerby, are of a much larger size, and of a more vigorous growth, than the analogous species in the northern hemisphere.

A large Voluta is abundant in southern Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands.