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Two corvettes, the Astrolabe and the Zelée, fitted up with everything which French experience had proved to be necessary, were placed at his disposal, and amongst his colleagues were many who were subsequently to rise to the rank of general officers, including Jacquinot, commander of the Zelée, Coupvent Desbois, Du Bouzet, Tardy de Montravel, and Perigot, all well-known names to those interested in the history of the French navy.
Bellinghausen, yet another Russian explorer Discovery of the islands of Traversay, Peter I., and Alexander I. The whaler, Weddell The Southern Orkneys New Shetland The people of Tierra del Fuego John Biscoe and the districts of Enderby and Graham Charles Wilkes and the Antarctic Continent Captain Balleny Dumont d'Urville's expedition in the Astrolabe and the Zelée Coupvent Desbois and the Peak of Teneriffe The Straits of Magellan A new post-office shut in by ice Louis Philippe's Land Across Oceania Adélie and Clarie Lands New Guinea and Torres Strait Return to France James Clark Rosset Victoria.
An instance similar to the one recorded by Benivenius is also found in the last century in Germany. Bouillon and Desbois, two French physicians of the last century, both record examples of the uterus rupturing in the last stages of pregnancy and the mother recovering.
Borellus details a description of a giant child. There is quoted from Boston a the report of a boy of fifteen months weighing 92 pounds who died at Coney Island. He was said to have been of phenomenal size from infancy and was exhibited in several museums during his life. Desbois of Paris mentions an extraordinary instance of rapid growth in a boy of eleven who grew 6 inches in fifteen days.
In spite of the eagerness of the young officers to go and enjoy themselves on shore they had to submit to a quarantine of four days, on account of rumours of cases of plague having occurred in the lazaretto of Marseilles. Without pausing to relate the details of Messrs. Du Bouzet, Coupvent, and Dumoulin's ascent of the Peak, we will merely quote a few enthusiastic remarks of Coupvent Desbois:
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