We generally see it constituting the fundamental rock, and, however formed, we know it is the deepest layer in the crust of this globe to which man has penetrated.

The limit of man's knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest, which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
JANUARY 1, 1835.
The new year is ushered in with the ceremonies proper to it in these regions.

She lays out no false hopes: a heavy north-western gale, with steady rain, bespeaks the rising year.

Thank God, we are not destined here to see the end of it, but hope then to be in the Pacific Ocean, where a blue sky tells one there is a heaven,--a something beyond the clouds above our heads.
The north-west winds prevailing for the next four days, we only managed to cross a great bay, and then anchored in another secure harbour.

I accompanied the Captain in a boat to the head of a deep creek.