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siting A:: JANUARY 24, 1850.

FUND FOR PROMOTING FEMALE
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COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. SIDNEY 11E ItBERT, M.P., Chairman.
The Right Hon. Lord John Russell, M.P.
The Most Noble the Marquis of Westminster
The Right iloa. the Earl of Carlisle
The Right Hon. the Earl of liarrowby
The Right Hon. the Earl of St. Germain'
The Right Hon. the Earl of Ellesmere
The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Lonlon
The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Oxford
The Most Noble the Marquis of Granby, M.P.
The Lord Ashley, M.P.
The Right Hon. Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P.
The Right Hon. James Stuart Wortley, M.P.
The Hon. John Talbot, Q.C.
The lion. Arthur Kinnaird
Sir Walter Rocklin' Farquhar, Bart.
Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P.
The Baron Lionel de Rothschild, M.P.
C. B. Adderley, Esq., M.P.
Georg.? Carr Glyn, Esq., M.P.
John Niasterman, Esq., NLV.
John Walter, Esq., M.P.
William Page Wood, Esq.,
C. J. Bevan, Esq.
The 11ev. Joseph Brown
The Rev. W. W.O
William Cotton, Esq.
The Rev. Thomas Dale
W. F. A. Del me, Esq.
The Rev. John Garwood
William Gregson, Esq.
Robert Hanbury, Esq.
William Hawes, Esq.
M. J. Higgins, Esq.
Henry Charles Hoare, Esq.
George Jelf, Esq.
John Labouchere, Esq,
Samuel Jones Loyd, Esq.
W. G. Prescott, Esq.
The Rev. W. Quekett
The Rev. B. C. Sangar
William Shaw, Esq.
The Rev. J. Sherman
The Count de Strzelecki, C.B.
J. I. Travers, Esq.
SUBSCRIPTIONS.
der Most Gracious Majesty' the Queen, and
Royal Highness the Prince Albert, K.G.
tier Royal Highness tke Duchess of Kent - - 100 0 0
tier Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester - 25 0 0
Right Hon. Sidney Her- X. !Robert Tlanbury, Esq. 100 0 0
bert, 51. P. - - 509 0 0 Burton Borough, Esq. 100 0 0
Most Noble the Mar- 'Colonel Cholmeley - 100 0 0
quis of Westminster 500 0 it Anonymous, per the
The Right Hon. Lord lion. Mrs. Sidney
Robt.Grosvenor,lf.P. 300 0 0 Herbert - - 100 0 0
Messrs. Truman, Han- Messrs. Hoare - 100 0 0
bury, Buxton, and Co. 300 0 CliCharles Hoare, Esq. - 100 0 0
Messrs. Coutts and Co. 200 0 0 William Page Wood,
Messrs. N. M. Roths- I Esq., M.P. - - 100 0 0
child and Sons - - 200 0 0 Messrs. Masterman,
Messrs. Smith, Payne, Peters, and Co. - 100 0 0
and Smi•hs - - 200 0 0 The Earl of Aberdeen 100 0 0
The Earl Manveri - 200 0 0 Earl Cornwallis - - 100 0 0
Sir Edward North Bux- Chas. Compton, Esq. - 100 0 0
ton, Bart., M.P. - 200 0 0 Robert Gosling, Esq. 100 0 0
R. S. Holford, Esq. - 200 0 0 Messrs. Goslings and
11., per the Rev. T. Dale 200 0 0 Sharpe - - - 100 0 0
Earl Bigby - - - 200 0 0 Sir Jokn Josiah Guest,
Messrs. flarolay, Per- Bart., M.P. - - 100 0 0
kips, and Co. - 200 0 0 Col. the Hon. Douglas
J. Morton Pete, Esq., Pennant, K.P. - 100 0 0
M.F. - - - 200 0 0 Charles Dixon, Esq. (of
Richard Holland, Esq. 200 0 0 Staasted) -
Messrs.Phillipps, Shavr, Messrs. Barclay,Bevan,
and Co. - - - 105 0 0 Tritton. and Co. - 100 0 0
The Dowager Duchess Messrs. Prescott,Grote,
of Northumberland - 100 0 0 and Co. - - 100 0 0
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land, K.G. - - 100 0 0
The Duke of Portland 100 0 0
Right Hon. Lerd John
Russell, M.P. - - 100 0 0
The Lord Bishop of Lon-
don - - - - 100 0 0
The Countess of Pem-
broke - - - 100 0 0
The Ilon. A. Kinnalrd 100 0 0
The Earl of Clanwil-
liam - - 100 0 0
The Earl of Nelson - 100 0 0
Frederick Pigott, Esq. 100 0 0
Messrs. Glyn and Co. 100 0 0
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M.. W. Mills, Esq. - 100 0 0
[. Gellibrand Hubbard,
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C. J. Bevan, Esq. - 100 0 0
Messrs. Drummond& - 100 0 0
Samuel Jones Loyd,
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India Company - 300 0 0
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Co. - - - - 100 0 0
ames Morrison, Esq.,
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The Earl of Dysart - 100 0 0
Messrs. Horroekses,
Miller, and Co. - 100 0 0
The Right Hon. the
Speaker of the House
of Commons -
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Colonel the Hon. G.
Rice Trevor, M.P. - 50 0 0
Rev. T. Halford - - 50 0 0
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Lord Ashburton - - 100 0 0
A. J. Beresford Hope,
Esq., M.P. - 100 0 0
Lord Dufferin - - 100 0 0
Sir 11. Banbury - - 100 0 0
His Grace the Duke of
Cleveland - - 100 0 0
Earl of Ellesmere - 100 0 0
Viscount Castlereagh.
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Messrs. Child
Lord Feversham
Messrs. Overend, Gur-
ney, and Co. - - 100 0 0
Messrs. Bass, Ratcliffe,
and Gretton, Burton-
cgi-Trent 100 0 0
"G" - - 100 0 0
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Charles Churchill, Esq.
Miss Stoney - -
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Mrs. W. G. Roberts -
Capt. G. Hansel, R.N.
Rev. Dr. Dilly -
Hart Davies, Esq.
E. L. Cox, Esq. -
r. R. Williams, Esq. -
Mrs. Burton Borough -
Colonel Owen -
" R." per A. Jardine
Roberts, Esq. -
Hrs. Borough - -
Right Hon. Lady Mid-
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Miss AE. Provost -
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phlnstone - - 20 0 0 Henry Grose, Esq.
C. Bosanquet, Esq. - 20 0 0 Miss Louisa Holland -
rosepts 'Martineau, Esq. 20 0 0 lion. Edward Stewart
Wm. Paynter, Esq. - 20 0 0 Miss F. H. Ridley -
E. C. Egerton, Esq. - 20 0 0 Sir It. Westmacott -
.1. Locke, Esq., M.P. - 20 0 0 "Ono who wishes he
The Right lion. Fox could give more." -
Manic, M.P. - - 20 0 01J. S., per F. B. -
Lord C. Manner;, M.P. 20 0 oMre. Brinstead Gaseleo
3enjamin Shaw, Esq. - 20 0 Olney. W. R. W. Call -
William Fox, Esq. - 20 0 0, Nfat. Blakeston, Esq. -
Robert Palmer, Esq. - 20 0 ()Rev. W. Thomson
John Field, Esq. -150 01 (Queen's College, Ox-
Jean De Kalergi, Esq. 15 0 0, ford) - -
['homes Warner, Esq. 15 0 015.. J. [Mime, Esq. -
Thomas Wood, Esq. - 15 0 OStephen Garrard, Esq.
" Donation from Cam- G. Ba clay, Esq. (of
bridgeshire" - - 10 15 0 Leith) - -
H. N. Peek, Esq. - 10 10 OP. Laurie, jnn., Esq. -
Messrs. Thos. Southey C. A. Weld, Esq.
and Son - - - 10 10 0 John Round, Esq.
I. Fielden, Esq. (Black- R. J. Phillinr-re, Esq.,
burn) - - - 10 10 0 D.C.L. - -
William Barker, Esq. - 10 10 OW. Walker, Esq.
Messrs. Vyse and Sons 10 10 OD. M. Davidson, ESq. -
Right lion. R. M. Admiral Lysaght
Pierrepont - - 10 10 0 Lieut.-Col. C. Stuart -
Mr. Boutcher - - 10 10 0 Lieut. Brown, R.N. -
Edw. Thornton, jun. , " Norsk" - -
Esq. - - -1010 0 Capt. West (Grenadier
Si sera. Johnston and Guards) - -
Ravey - - - 10 10 0 Alfred Lapworth, Esq.
Lord Claude Hamilton, William Howard, Esq.
M.P. - - - 10 0 01John Ellis, Esq. - -
Viscount Templetown 10 0 0 Messrs Elrington and
lion. W. F. Cowper, Dundee - - -
M.P. - - 10 0 0 Benjamin Whitelock,
Ad niral Eullott - - 10 0 0 - - -
Viscount Mandeville, Thomas Lambert, Esq.
M.P. - - - 10 0 01Messrs. David Jones
lion. J. E.Elliott,M.P. 10 0 0 and Co. - -
Capt. Houston Stewart, William Weall, Esq. -
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Jno. Parker, Esq., M.P. 10 0 0 Rev. G. Smith - -
Miss Elizabeth Trotter 10 0 0 JKiss Tuit - - -
Miss Currer - - 10 0 O.H. Unwln, Esq. - -
Thomas Parr, Esq. - 10 0 ()Col. E. Hay - - -
Sir George T. Staunton, ,Col. Harris - - -
Bart., M.P. - - 10 0 0 Capt. John Stoddart -
Thomas Parr, Esq. - 10 0 O,F. Vilmet, Esq. - -
Hon. W. B. Grey - 10 0 0 Miss A. E. Johnson -
Sir R. J. Murchison - 10 0 OC. R. Fitzgerald, Esq. -
Major-Gems. 0. Pollock 10 0 o,William Hussey, Esq.
Eras G. Gregor, Esq. - 10 0 01 (of Clifton) - -
E. 11. Palmer, Esq. - 10 0 0 Robert Wright, Esq. -
R. C. Fall, Esq. - - 10 0 o;Mrs. Sarah Fox (Ches-
Lord Churchill - - 10 0 0; ter-terrace) - -
it. Bradford, Esq. - 10 0 0111iss Anne Van de Wart
T. E. Matthieson, Esq. 10 0 0 Lieut.-Col. Vansittart -
Me Earl of Sefton - 10 0 0 lion. Mrs. Talbot -
Sir Horace Seymour - 10 0 0 Rev. Dr. Everard (of
Sire. Sophia Courtenay 10 0 0' Bishop's Hull)
Lord Pellisigton - 10 0 (A. 11. Humber, Esq. -
Lady Erie - - - 10 0 0 Thos. Jordason, Esq. -
fames Capel, Esq. - 10 0 O'Miss Smith (Waltham-
" Fitzeve" - -100 01 stow)
Kiss Cavan - - 10 0 0 Mrs. West
t. Robinson, Esq. - 10 0 01C. C. C. -
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T. Woolley, Esq. - S 5 O,P. L. Pelly, Esq.
J. N. Gull, Esq. - - 5 5 OE. E. Grundy, Esq.
I Messrs. C. and J. D. A. Burcherdeld, Esq. -

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W. Earle, Esq. (Grove-
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Messrs. A. Pelly and

Co. - - - 5 5 0,
Misses E. B , J. 8., and
J. 8., of Leith - 5 5 0.
William Hawes, Esq. 5 5 01
Messrs. D. Braggiotti
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Colonel Tulloch - 5 5 0,
Mrs. Boutcher - - 5 5 0'
T. W. Buckley, Esq. - 5 5 0
T. C. Baxter, Esq. - 5 0 0
The Rev. A. Humtable b 0 0
Miss Mash - 5 0 01
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Chas. J. Baker, Esq. - 5 0 01
Henry Baker, Esq. - 5 0 01
Robt. Wilkinson, Esq. 5 0 0,
George Wright, Esq. 5 0 01
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The Fireside Fairy. Hob's First Visit.
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Shakspeare-Studies of Women. No. 2. By Mary Cowden Clarke.
Lessons in the School of Life. By Mrs. James Whittle. With an

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Winter Gardens. By J. W. L. With an Illustration.
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THE POET'S PROPHECY.

'I do not want to imitate old Moore,
Who often tried the future to explore.
I never handle matters of chronology
By means of signs connected with astrology.
Far more I know of waistcoats, coats, and breeches,
Than fortune-tellers, almanacks, and witches.
Yet, notwithstanding this, my humble muse
Is half-inclined to tread in Murphy's shoes,
By telling you the reasons she has got
For thinking winter will be hard or not.
Judging from signs, I do not think Eni wrong
In saying winter will be hard and long.
I fancy that the snowdrop's slender leaf
Shows certain signs that winter won't be brief;
The crocus and the hyacinth as well
The self-same story of the winter tell ;
And there is something in the robin's note
Which indicates that warmth is far remote.
Now, it you think I'm right in such a guess,
A warning take, and look to winter dress.
Moses and Son's warm coats you must regard,
If winter's season's to be long and hard.
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ARCTIC RESEARCHES.

The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have
favoured us with copies of the subjoined dispatches
received on Tuesday :
her Majesty's ship Herald, Nov. 22, 1819.
Sir,—Herewith I have the honour to transmit, f .r the
inf)rmation of my Lords Commissioners of the Admi-
ralty, a circumstantial account of my proceedings since
leaving Oahu on the 19th of May last.
Passing to the southward of Oneehow and Lisian-
sky's Island and clove to the position of Byeu's and M
roll's Islands, without meeting with either of the two
latter, we sighted Kamchatka at 6 A.M. on the 22d c f
June; there we picked up a fresh gale off the land,
which ran me within a mile of Cape Gavarea, and le't
me in a dead calm. My position would have been cri-
tical had I not found at this distance bottom in 30 fs.
thorns.

At daylight three ships were in sight off the Point of
Petropaulski, the miragi transforming them into every
imaginable shape. With light variable winds, assisted
by our boats and a slight northerly current, we reached
an anchorage in the entrance, in 15 fathoms, by seven
P. M.

The voyage occupied 35 days, and was only remark-
able for the lightness of the winds, the fineness of the
weather, and the almost entire absence of f ,g; 24 hours
never having elapsed without having obtained observa-
tions either by day or night for the position of the stop.
Thr three vessels we had noticed proved to be Ame-
rican whale ships that hal also towed into an anchorage.
I boarded one of them, and learned that they had left
the port the day before, but having lost some men, had
returned to pick them tr. From this vessel I also
learned that the Plover had not been to Petropaulski,
but a report was current ef a vessel having wintered
somewhere to the northward.

This information determined..me to go to the ancho.
rage with the ship, if I could do so without toss of time,
getting at. the same time teto boats rea ly to proceed
there and obtain information in case it should continue
calm.

The wood at this port is excellent, the water easily
' obtained, and the beat I have ever tasted; at Chamisso
Island, to hare taken in the same quantity of water I
did here, would have cost me days for hours.
A fine northerly breeze springing up at midnight,
although foul, I weighed with the ship shortly after
dispatching the boat. The wind freshened, with the
tide in our favour, and we came to at seven A.M. in our
former anchorage off the watering place.
In our passage up the masters of the American ves-
sels came on board to gain information relative to Beh-
ring's St -nits, whither they were bound. They in-
formed me that at least twenty American vessels would
pass through those straits this year, in consequence of
the success of one of their vessels last season. The
master of the successful vessel appears to have been an
enterprising man. He had a roving commission from
his owner, but having been unsuccessful in the Japanese
Seas, and reading in Captain Beechey'a voyage of the
numbsr of whales he had seen in the Arctic Sea, he
determined to go there. He did so, and succeeded;
entering the Straits with a clear ship, aad returning
about six weeks after with 4,000 barrels.
The Governor of retropaulski had not heard of a ves-
sel having wintered to the northward, nor could he
inform us from what source such a report could have
sprung.
I found lying here the Royal Thames Yacht Club
schooner Nancy Dawson, owned and commanded by a
Mr. Sheddon, formerly a mate in the royal navy. fie
informed me that his object in coming hero was to go
through the Straits, and as far north as possible in
search of Sir John Franklin's expedition. He was last
from Hong Kong, having touched at the Loo Choo
Islands. She is well found in provisions, stores, and
instruments. Her crew were entered at Hong Kong,
the greater part of them Americans; they appeared to
be a most disorganized set of men. Mr. Sheddon offered
to place his vessel at my disposal, and appeared anxious
that I should send an officer on board him,
By 7 P. M. we had completed our water (having ob-
tained 35 tons), and by 10 P. N. had taken on board as
much wood as we could stow.

At 6 A. M., 25th of June, weighed in a calm, and towed
out from tho anchorage. Got a light wind from the
southward, bringing with it a fog, though still not so
thick but that both sides of the entrance could be seen.
Continut d beating out. In making a stretch over the
eas'ern shore from Babouski Island the fug closed down
over the rocks, and deceived me as to their distance. I
hove the ship in stays with the greatest confidence, but
the whirls of the tide made her slack, and shot her on
to the rocks before I had time to bring up with an
anchor.

The stream anchor and cable were laid out, and hove
taut, and at 2.10 r. M. the ship was hove off into deep
maser, having been nearly three hours on shore. For-
tunately the water at 'the time was glassy smooth, so
that the ship lay perfectly quiet until a short time before
getting oils, when she lifted and struck heavily by the
bow two or three times, bringing away on call) occasion
small pieces of her false kee . The ship made no water,
and I did not consider her much damaged. Remained
at anchor during the night.
June 26, nines, e.DI , weighed, with a light S.E. wind,
but was obliged to anchor again in a very exposed posi-
tion, near the Island of Slaritchkov, it being a calm, with
a current setting directly on shore. 'A thick fog and
dead calm during the night. Quantities t f fish and crabs
were caught at this position.
June 17—At ten A.M. we weighed, with a light N.E.
wind, which took us clear of the eh( a',3 off the entrance,
and almost immediately we entered a dense fog.
Struggling with light variable winds and fogs, we did
not pass Bhering's Island until the 2d of July. Oa the
morning of the 13th we passed the carcass of a dead
whale, and in the flrenoon another. Shortly afterwards
we exchanged colours with one of the American
whalers we had seen at Petropaulski, and before twelve
o'clock the other two. La-ge flocks of the little crested
auk about the ship. At noon the N.W. end of St.
Lawrence Island bore due east, distant twelve miles.
Running during the night with a fresh S.S.W. wind and
thick weather. Hauled up for the Asiatic shore at seven
A.ll under easy sail, to make the land, which we did
nrar the northern point of St. Lawrence Bay, having
experienced in that time a current of twenty-five miles
to the northward. At 8.30 passing within three miles
of East Cape, shaped our course for Cape Espenberg
(Kotzebue Sound), with a very strong S.E. wind.
In passing a'.lro!s toe straits we taw to the north-
ward of the Diomede Islands two other whale ships,
hove to with their heads t) the S.W., one of them'
trying out.
We passed over the shoal spoken of by Cap-
tain Beechey, off Schismarief Inlet, and found in
s, von fathoms the leist water, the sea at the time so
high and hollow that it frequently broke into our main
chains.

Bunning along the low land off Cape Espenberg,
which we passed shortly after midnight. Wo had un-
interrupted daylight, the only difference between the
light at midnight and noon being as the light of a
November's day in England is to that of a summer's one.
As we entered the Sound the wind gradually light
ened and veered to the eastward. Passed several 1 'gs of
drift-wood.-

15th of July—Shortly after eight, A.M., we male out
a vessel at anchor under Chamisso Is'and, and at ten
exchanged numbers with her Majesty's ship Plover. We
reached the anchorage by
one, Rm., having run in fifty
hours from the west end of St. Lawrence Island to the
anchorage off Chatnisso.
Commander Moore came on board, from whom I was
glad to learn that the officers and crew were all healthy
and in rood spirits. Ile had only arrived at six A.m. the
by the Plover on the Asiatic shore, close to
day previous, h
the south of Cape Tchukotsky.
B,fore my arrival two boats had been dispatched for
having passel the winter in a harbour dis-
covered
the Mackenzie River, under the command of Lieutenant
Lee; lirtunately the Herald hove in sight before it was
too late to signalise them;
returned. the boats saw the recall, and

We commenced immediately on our arrival to coal
and provision the Plover, and by 9 A.M. she had on
board all the bread she could stow, half her coals, and a
proportion of other provisions.
July 16—We were occupied in stowing Plover's pro-
visions and coals, removing officers, discharging objec-
tionable men, and filling up their vacancies from our
own complement. While this was going on I went with
Commander Moore and his acting ice-master to examine
the different bays on the ea't side of Choris Peninsula,
for a wintering station for the Plover. We found very
shoal water in all of them, shoaling gradually northerly
towards the east peninsula. They were of opinion that
if a vessel did winter there she would be greatly exposed,
and probably, on the breaking up of the ice, be carried
into the straits or shoved up on to the beach.
At nine ran. both ships were ready to sail, but our
main cap having been reported very rotten, I was de-
tained the next day (17th) to shift it.
On each day of our stay we were visited by two
baidars, carrying twelve men each; all of them were
particularly tall, well built, well armed, and without
either their women or dogs.
At first they were rather shy, hut as soon as the in-
terpret-Ir began t) speak t) them in their languaze—
that is, in a dialect which some of them understood—.
they appeared delighted, came on board, looked all over
tla i ship, and returned (at'ter I had made each of them
some trifling present) without attempting to pilfer any-
thing.
They belonged to Sitiftreif Inlet, and expressed their
delight at meeting with, and being recognised by, Lieut.
Cooper and others who had visited thorn at their place
last year, making presents to them without seeking a
return.

Commander Moore and myself accompanied them to
Cha-nisso Island, where sfor hauling up their baidars,
canting them bottom to the wind, the weather gunwale
resting on the sand, the other raised about three feet,
and supported by raldles, the space underneath covered
with furs, we partook of several pipes with them.
Whilst we were engaged with our pipe, Commander
Moore employed his boat's crew in digging for the flour
ltfc by C twain Beechey twenty-three years before in a
position indicated by directions on a rock, which were as
perfect as the day when cut. We found this rock last
year, but, supposing the flour to have bcon removed by
the natives, did not dig for it. A considerable space
was cleared round the crick, its chimes freed, only ad-
hering to the sand by the two lower bilge staves; yet
still it required the waited strevith of two boats' crews,

with a parbuckle and a large spar as a lever, to free it
altogether. The sand was f:•oron so hard that it
emitted sparks with every blow of the pickaxe. The
ea,..k itself was perfectly sound, and the hoop good; out
f the 3361 b. of flour which it contained, 175!h. was as
sweet and well-tasted as any we had on board. The tin
of beads was also fuund; those not of glass much de-
cayed; the cotton stringing quite sound.
July 18—At six A.m. we weighed, with a S.W. wind,
and stood out of the anchorage. The Nancy Dawien
yacht hove in sight at the same time. She ace,mapal;e I
us, without t •uching at Chamisso Island. The Plorer
aiing under all plain sail, the Herali h eping in com-
pany:

July 19 —At four A.I. paisrd a ship standing to the
eastward, and at noon Point Hope bore N. 18 deg. W.
55 mile•. We experie Iced, contrary to my expectation,
in this run, a current set'ing S. 74 deg. W., har-a-mile
per hour. 6 P.M.—Exchanged c )lours with an American
whaler (111arga7et, of Providence). Whales at the time
blowing in every dire3tion round her; wind too arang
and t)0 much sea fir her to attempt them. Fog so
dense at eight P.M., that the Plover could not be seen,
although within speaking distance. Continued running
to the northward during the night, kelping company by
gongs and
_

July 20 —ln the firenoon nearly ran over the carcass
of a dead whale that hal been flinched. Noon, the wind
baring shifted suddenly to the northward, we had fine
clew weather; Cape Lisburne east nineteen miles. At
five r M. we anchored in fifteen fathoms, with Cape Lis-
borne bearing N. 7 deg. 20 min., E. meg., distant two
miles and a ha'f; Plover and yacht in company.
From this position two whale boats were dispatched to
examine the coast northerly, under the orders of Lieu-
tenant Pullen (Plover), and Mr. Parsons, Eemnd master
(Herald). A boat was also sent from the Plover a short
diqsnee to the southward. The Plover's boat returned
soon after midnight, having landed in one or two places,
and met with many natives, who were friendly and well
disposed. A beantiful clew night. At midnight the sun
showed its sernidiameter above the horizon, and nearly
every person in the ship remainel up to witness this
phenomena for their first time.
July 21—Weighed in the morning at seven A.sr ,
with a N.N.E. wind to follow the boats northerly. The
Plover being nearer in shore, was visited by two baidars,
each carrying about twenty natives, men and women ; a
most miserable set of beings they were. They spoke of
the boats having passed their encampment the night be-
fore. They collect near this place fur the purpose of
catching birds and ga'hering egg'. Calm ; anchored at
six P.M., in eleven fathoms north and east of Cape
Lisburne, off shore about six miles.

Weighed again at midnight, with a light northerly
wind ; the boats hove in sight at seven A.M., at ten they
were alongside.
Mr. Pullen had examined the inlet to the eastward of
cape without success. He was informed by the natives,
through the interpreter, that none of the inlets on the
coast would admit of a vessel entering them ; that it was
only a few of them, at the early spring, their baidars
could enter ; and they were closed when the winds began
to blow from the westward.

We experienced in the ship until six P.n. of the 23d
a tedious calm ; the curreflt fortunately set us north,
half a mile per hour. < During this time we were visited
by two baidars, with the same party of natives we had
seen off Cape Lisburne ; they came along fearlessly,
and disposed of every article they had ; the women
selling their for dresses, even to their second pair of
breeches, for tobacco and heals.

During the evening of the 23d and the morning of the
24th we were running to the N.E.. with a moderate
S.S.W. wind and a thick f clearing at intervals fir a
short time. Watrusses, whales, and flocks of eider duck
about. We were guided as to our approach to the ice
by the temperature of the sea.
' July 25, A.M.—The wind shifted to the N.W.;
brought with it cold but fine and clear weather; steer-
ing fir Wainwright's Inlet, the vast numbers of wal-
russes that surrounded us keeping up a continual bellow-
ing or grunting. The barking of the innumerable sea's,
the small whales, and the immense flocks of ducks con-
tinually- rising- from the water as we neared them,
warned us of our approach to the ice, although the tem-
perature of the sea was still high. We male the land a
little before noon, ten miles t) the northward of Wain-
wright's Inlet. At two P.M. we anchored in eleven
fathoms, about three miles off its entrance. The Plover
and yacht had done so about an hour before.
In running down along the coast a post was observed
on the higher land, near the entrance of the inlet;
shortly afterwards a man was seen to hoist on it (what
we most of us made out to be) a flag. The Plover soon
afterwards dipped her ensign (simply to char it as we
afterwards learned); this was answered by the person at
the post doing the same, and entirely removing it.
I immediately lowered a boat, and sent Lieutenant
Cooper, of this ship, to the shore. He walked up to the
post, and found it to be nothinz more than a native
mark for a quantity cf blubber and reindeer flesh he
discovered buried there. The native had left. Lieute-
nant Coope- after remaining there some time, returned
on board without seeing anybody.
My reasons for selecting this place to equip and
disptitch the boats from, instead of praccedirig as fir
north as the ships should go, was that r considered it of
the greatest importace that the Plover's wintering sta-
tion should be known by the officer in command of the
boat expedition.

Comm. enrol immediaie!y to hoist out the boats, equip
and provision them. Whil9 this vra,-; going on I dis-
patched Mr. Hill, master of the ship, to sound the
ent-ance of the inlet. lie returned on board a little be-
fore midnight, and made to me the following report:—
That the channel was very narrow and winding; that
nine feet was the most water that could with certainty
be carried in, and that even to insure that depth the
channel would require close buoying; that a fair wind,
or a calm, so that a vessel might either sail or bo towel
in, was necessary, the channel being too narrow and in-
tricate to warp through. Once in, he reports that there
is a sufficiency of water and a convenient spot for the
Plover to winter.

From this report I found that it was impossible for
the Plover to enter this inlet with the water found there,
but as the entrance was encumbered with some heavy
pieces of ice aground, which during our stay wag break-
ing up ast, I conceived it very probable that after they
had disappeared the channel might become more direct
and deeper. I therefore determined to return and make
a closer examination of tho inlet as soon as I had seen
the boats as far north as we could reach in the ships.
The boa's were therefore directed to visit Wainwright's
Inlet on their return, in case it should prove practicable
fit the Plover to enter, but that, under: any circum-
stances, she would be found in the Chamisso

Mr. Hill met there about 40 natives, who were very
friendly at first, but when they found ho was about to
leave them, they became annoying, pulling their baidars
across his bows, and fouling his oars, not with any hos-
tile intentions, but simply to delay his departure, so
that they might have time to barter with him for some
of his riches.

By midnight the boats were all ready, and shoved off
under three hearty cheers from the ships, which were as
heartily returned by the boats.
This little expedition consisted of 25 persons and
four bolts, as nllows:—Lieutenant Pullen, comrranding
the Herald's 30-f)ot pinnace, fitted On board with the
great-st care, thoroughly decked, schooner-rigged, and
called the Owen, furnished with pumps, spare rudder,
and a strengthening piece of 2-inch plank above her
water line.

Two 27-foot whale boats, new beats, brought out by
her Majesty's ship Asia fr ,no England, covere 1 in abaft
as far as the backboard, but without either boxes or
cases, the provisions being stowed, the bread in painte 1
bags, and the preserved meats between tarpawlings.
The men's clothes were in haversacks, capable of re-
moval in a moment.

Plover's pinnace, a half-decked boat, with ca3es for
her provisions, &c., so placed as to resist pressure from
the ice.

There was placed in the boats 70 days' preserved
meats fir the whole party, all the other articles of pro •
visions, except bread, to the same extent, being also
soldered up,in tins. In addition to these the Owen had
on board eight men's allowance of the regular ship's
provision*. After she was st)wed with this proportion,
every corner that would hold a case of preserved meat
was filled. The two larger boats carried in lack cf them
five cases of pemmican fir the especial use of Sir John
Franklin's party.
The ships weighed in company with the boats, and
ran alonz the land within about three miles, with a mo-
derate off-shore wind.

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July 21—At four A.M. the: ice could be seen in heavy
masses, extending from the shore near the Sea Horse
Islands. At six we were obliged to heave in conse-
quence of a dense f:ig. This cleared off at half-past
eleven. The Plover was close to, but neither the boats
nor the yacht were in sight.
We both made sail, steering true north, and were, at
one r.m., in Ist. 71 deg. 5 min., where we made the
heavily packed ice, extending nearly as far as the eye
could reach frOm N. W. by W. to'N.E. At this time we had
soundings in forty fathoms mud—the deepest water we
have had since leaving the island of St. Lawrence. We
continued running along the pack until eight P.m., when
a thick fog coming on, we ran two or three mile; south,
and hove to, wind blowing from N.N.E., and directly Of
the ice. We had run along it thirty miles.

The paik was composed of a dirty-coloured ice, not
more th in five or six feet high, except some pinnaclo3
ilf:”ply seated in the pack, which had no doubt boen
thrown up by the foci coming in contact. Every fo
miles the ice streamed off from the pack, through which
the Plciver

July 29—At half-past one the fog cleared off; the
pack from N.N.W. to N.N.E., distant about six miles.
Made sail during the forenoon, running through streams
of loose ice. At ten passed some large and heavy floes.
Commander Moore considering theca sufficiently heavy
and extensive to obtain a suite of ma2,netical observa-
tions, dropped the Plover through between them, and
made fist with ice anchors under the lee cf the largest
in a most seamanlike manner.
I laidei on the floe, with Lieutenant Trollops. The
latitude, time, and varia!ion, were obtained on it (lat.
71 30 N.; long. 162 5 W.); but the other observations
were vitiated by its motion in azimuth, and by the con-
stant bre Acing away the level would not stand. We had
28 fathoms mud alongside it and no current.
I found the ice driving slowly to the southward, with
the N.N.E. wind then blowingiresh. Very few walrus
end but a single direr seen r.Ehe general height pf this

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floe was five feet, and about one mile in extent; on it
were found pebbles and mud, which led Commander
Moore to suppose that it Lai been in conta, t with the
lend. I supposed the mud and pebbles to hale been fecal
renains dropped there by some walrus.
At 3 n.m. the Plover slipped from the ice, and both
ships with a N.E. wind made sail westerly urfl six
o'clock, when we hauled up true north, having no ice in
sight in that direction, and only from mast-head on wea-
ther beam. A fine clear night, running along six and
seven knots; temperature of the water, 40 deg. ; depth,
21 fathoms (increasing).
At midnight the latitode was obtained by the inferior
passage of the sun. At 5 A.M. Vie temperature of the
water hid fallen to 36 deg., and alines- at the same in-
stint the ice was repored from the mast-head. Between
this time and seven A.m. (when we hove to within half a
mile of the pack) we ran ten degrees five minutes, so
that I consider eleven miles to be about the distance that
packed ice in this part of the world can be seen in clear
weather from a ship's malt-head.
This pack was of dirty-Jol Aire! ice, showing an out-
line, without a break in it, five or six feet high, with
columns and pinnacles mu.th higher some distance in.
Although the wind was off the pack, there was not a
particle of loose or drif, ice from it; our soundings ha
gradually increased to 35 fathoms, soft bl :e mud. The
only living thing seen were a pair of small divers, black
with a white ball in the ba:..k, and two very remarkable
birds, very like the female of the tropical man-of- war
bird—a dingy black colour, with exceisively long wing,
sad the same flight when soaring. We could not suc-
ceed in shooting any of either species. We remained
hove to off the pack fur an hour. The temperature of
the sea near the pack at every five fathoms was as shown
in the margin. In the dredge we got muscles, and a
few bivalves common to these seas.

This was our most nJrthern position, lat. 72 deg.
51 min. N., 118 deg. W. The ice, as ar as could be
seen from the masthead, trended. away W.S.W. (com-
pass), Commander Moore and the ice master reporting a
water sky to the north of the pack, aud,a strong iceblink
to the S.W.

It was impossible to gain this reported orea water, al
the pack was perfectly impenetrable. Tt.e pack we had
just traced f,l. 40 lesgue4, made in a series of steps wes-
terly and northerly, the westerly being about 10 or 12
miles, and the northerly 20. We made sail at 9 o'clock,
A.M., steering for the coait a little t) the westward of our
track up. Wind N.E., gradually decreasing as wo got
southerly.

Five o'clock, A.M.—Fell a deal. calm, the sea glassy
smooth, and so transparent that a white plats was dis-
tinctly seen at a depth of 80 feet. This afforded mo an
opportunity of ascertaing the extent of damage the ship
had received when on shore in Awatska Bay. The f ire-
foot wal untouched, the false keel gone for about ten
feet. Beyond this she had sustained no damage that
we could see. The copper broken, and excessively thin
all over. As we approached tle coast we again met
numbers of whales, walrus, sells, and flights of ducks
and sea birds.

July 30, eight o'clock ♦.M.—Packed in shore in eight
fathoms, close to the northward of Blossom's Shoals.
Commander Moore came on board and proposed that
daring the time I was surveying Wainwright's Inlet he
should go along the coast during the fine weather as fAr
north as the ice would permit him, and endeavour to
communicate with the larger bows, which we expected
were somewhere about Refuge Inkt. With this inten-
tion we both started with a fine but adverse wind
from N.B.

I worked on short tacks, close along shore, the sound-
ings in muddy bottom decreasing and increasing as we
approached or receded from the land. Shortly after six
o clock A.m. we again anchored off the entrance of Wain-
wright's Inlet.
Not a particle of the ice seen on our former visit re-
mained. We had not long anchored when we observed
the natives carrying their baidars across the narrow neck
between the inlet and the sea and launching them.
Wishing to get as many of thorn as I could off to the
ship, so as to have fewer to molest me on shore, I de-
ta'ned the boats until two orthem came alongside. They
approached us slowly, frequently resting on their pad-
dles, the bowman each time invariably holding up his
hands over his head at an angle of forty-fire degrees,
when lowering them passing them over his breast and
stomach. I made the boatswain do the same from the
forecastle netting. They always wait 3d for his answer
ba ire they recommenced paddling.
I made theca each a present of some tobacco and
beads, which they could hardly understand that I in-
tended to give without return.
I left the ship with three boats, for the examination of
the inlet, and gave permission to the ship's company to
trade with the natives for whatever they had to dispoze
of, consisting mostly of small figures and tools of ivory,
bows, arrows, a few furs, sea'skin boots, and piece 3 of
reindeer'. flash.

I had not been long on shore be'ore these natives left
the ship and fAlowd. Nothing co.ild exceed their
good humour. When about to commence my observa-
tions, I ordered a'l trading to cease, dre a large semi-
circle on the sa rd, from water's edge to water's edge,
and placed the boats' noses batwo.n its point.. They
seemed perfectly to underst and the ro: aning of this line;
not one of them attempted to overstep It; Vey eqnstted
down, and remained perfectly qu'o' and silent. When a
stranger arrived they shouted to hire, who no sooner uc-
derstood Vlem than he crept rather than walked to the
boundary, and scpt tted atnon,gst the rzst. Tony dance
and sang fir our amusement, played f ,otball with the
seamen (who had not a chance n ith them), and displayed
their skill in shooting at a mark. Plover anchored iu
company soon of or noon. Calm.

Commander Moore went on shore, erect3d a mark,
and buried a bottle, with information f the beats. I
had satisfied myself before his arrival that ten fe,t was
the greatest depth that could be carried in; I theref,re
called upon him to furnish me with a reaort of what his
vessel could be lightened to, a copy cf which I have
the honour to enclose.

By it their Lordships will perceive that, short of taking
the Plover's masts out, she could not be lightene I suffi-
ciently to enter the inlet. Could it hare be ,n done by
any partial lightening I should have attempted it, being
in every way so very de4irable a position—in the first
place, from its high latitude, the friendliness of the na-
tives, the supply of reindeer's fl,sh we found could be
obtained there, there he'ug no other harbour south of
it nearer than the KotzAue Sound, and, lastly, the opi-
nions of the icemasters of the exposure to which a vessel
wintering in the latter place would be subjcctei. Inside
there is a good depth of water, and in ore spat the
Plover might have been placed alongside a bank, well
sheltered.

The natives gavo me to understand that a considerable
riser runs into it; at least one that they can, in their
baidars, navigate f,r many days, and that it ran to the
S.E.; that, on its banks, apt in the nei4hlTmrhood of
the inlet, no reindeer collected in great numbers, in
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their progress northerly, and in their return south.
The natives began to leave us, ai licf me, by eight
P.M., tracking their fielders with dogs to their tents in a
little san lay bay, a mile north ef us. By the time we
were ready to go off there was not one with u..
I was sorry to find that, after all their good behaviour,
they had bee, guilty of picking the pockets of two or
three. One lost a handkerchief, anot`rer a glove, Com-
modore Moore a box of caps, and the naturalist a smell
glass bottle, containing spirits and water.
Wednesday, Aug. I—During the night we had a thick
fig, which cleared at five A.m. The boats left the ship t )
continue their examination; Commander Moore and my-
self to obtain a suite of magnetical and other observations.
I returned to the ship shortly alter noon with the boats
to put my work on paper. Commareler Moore went up
the inlet, and found some baidars that had just arrived
with several reindeer cut in quarters. They were stowing
it with a considerable quantity they had alrea'ly collectlA
in a hole dug on the sand spot off Point Collie, and ap-
peared much annoyed at their stow-hole having been
discovered. It was deep, and lined with logs of wood,
having a roof formed also cif logs about five feet above
the ground, and covered with moss. For a small quan-
tity of tobacco they sold 8001bs. —as much as Com-
mander Moore's boat could carry. Learning f,•om him
that they were willing to dispose of more, I sent Lieu-
tenant Cooper, the naturalist, and the surgeon, in a light
boat to purchase it; seeing the boat pulling in fast
directly for them, they got alarmed, and at length, before
the boat touched the beach, a woman walked to the
water's edge and held up the bottle the naturalist had
lost the day before, making signs to him when he landed
tlatt it had been picked up on the beach. It was in the
same state as when he lost it, the cork never having been
removed. They at least understand that stealing is an
offence. At first they appeared rather sulky, and un-
unwilling to part with any of their meat; after a few
presents they resumed their former good humour and
sold fourteen quarters, all of them of young animals—it
was without a particle of fat, badly killed, but still was
owned by most on board to be very sweet and tender
neat.

In the afternoon a long westerly swell rolled in, with
a very light wind :till off the land; at 6 o'clock it
shiltei to the southward, with a threatening appearance.
We both immediately weighed and stood off the land,
in a thick fog, and with a filling barometer.
August 2—At 9 A.M. the fog cleared off. The Plover
was nowhere to be Seel), and the wind was gradually in-

creasing.
August 3—At 9 A.M. were reduced to treble-reefed
topsails and re( f.d courses, with a very short,
t,d
deep, and
trying sea. We were obliged to carry to it
io keep oft'
the land the current settler, as we found it ot all
occa-
Si its, with the wind—rather stronger off Joy Cape t',an
in other parts of this sta.
August 4—Wind gradually veered to the westward,
and by 5 A.U. died away to a calm. Variable airs, the
wind settled in the S.W. At 3 P.M. could see the st‘g,es
on Icy
.Cape; at half-past 3 packel in 11 fathoms, be-
f,re trimming we were in 8. Very gloomy, squally,
aid threatening weather. In standing off fell in with
the Plover again, signalized our position to her, and ap-
pointed Cape Lisburne as a rendezvous. Whales teen,
also large flocks of ducks and geese, going southerly.
August 5,6, and 7—Fresh breezes, with Leavy f slls
f snow, but what with the current, the trying sea, and
the wind always breaking us off in whichever way we
tried to go, we could not make a mile of westing until
the afternoon of the Bth, when the wind shifted sud-
denly'to the N.W.; stood to the W.S.W.
August 9.—ln the morning passed the carcass of a dead
whale, and another in the afternoon. I sent a boat to
this one, stuck a flag in it, and buried a bottle, contain-
ing current paper, u notice of my whereAboute, and of

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my intention to go westerly, for, the information of the
Plover, should she fall in with it. Many reports of land
from the masthead. A landbird germ
Having this favourable wind 'for exa-ning the pack to
the westward, I continued to steer as high as the wind
would permit on the sta-hoard tack. The wind continued
to lighten until the morning f the 10th, when it fell a
dead calm.
The ..ea was literally covered in streams with parti-
cles of a p;nlc colour, like wood ashes, or coarse saw-
dust fronlcedar, a tenth of an inch Icing and 0.5 in
diameter, and round. On placing it under the micro-
scope, no appearance cf circulation could be de-
tected. Mr. Goodridge, the 'surgeon of _this ship,
supposes it to have proceeded from the carcasses of toe
whales we raw yesterday, the oil having been forced
through the pores by the pressure of the water, giving the
uniform size and shape in which we found it. I endea-
voured to dry some in bicrting paper, but it was ab-
sorbed by the paper, and nothing left but an oily stain.
Tried the current, and found it running to the west-
ware, one-third of a mile an hour. Wolves grunting
around in groups of eight and ten together; quantities
of small pieces of drift-wood, all pine, which appeared
to have been washed from some beach. The tempera-
ture of the water at the surface in 29 fathoms was 45
mud)fa thiss a
h shrimps.
deg., and at the bottom 43 deg.
muTshoeisd,raetdagrfiesphro(dfouuenedd
segfoo,oad mfeawnybivalves (got b, fore), and
somei( ni
yn rptearbryth parts
A light southerly wind sprang up, gradually increas-
ing, and veering to the eastward. At half-past ten,
of or standing to the S.W. f,r fifteen mile., the loom of
the land in the neighbourhood f North Cape could be
seen. I ticked to the N.E., with the wind fresh front
E S. E.; not wishing to run the risk cf being caught with
a south castor between the land and the ice floe, which
I considered could not bo far off from the extraordinary
smoothness of the water, the numbers of walrus, and
panicularly a little black and whit: diver, which we
rev2r saw except in its vicinity.
Angus: 11—Steering ur.til this day in very thick and
bad weather to the N.E., at which time we were in
lat. 70 deg. 1 min., long. 173 deg. 53 min. Bore up
north to endeavour to fall in with the pack. By six
P.M. a dense fog came on, we haulel to the wind on port
a-A under reduced sails, bhip leading 8.E., with a
jumping sea.
August 12, A.M.—The wind shifted suddenly to
N. N. 8., and afterwards N.N.W., blowing hard, reduced
to treble-reefed tweeds and reefed foresail, our soand
ings having decreased-to 17 fathoms, mud. No observe-
vations. Our reckoning placed us in 17 deg. 20 min.,
171 dog. 23 min., in 18 fathoms, rand.
Shortly after noon our depth decreased to 16 fathoms,
the colour of the water becoming lighter, with a break-
ing sea all round. Our' soundings decreased a fathom
each cast until 1 30 P.M., when we were in 11 fathoms,
shingle, getting in wearing 9 fathoms, then 12, and
"hen trimmed to go back, as we went on, bad several
casts of 8, and one of 7 fathoms ; then suddenly got into
14, which gradually increaaed. The sun came out veri-
fying our noon poaitioo. Until midnight it blew a strong
gale.

August 13, A.x.—Fine; wore' to stand back to the
shoal. Shoaled our water at 13 fathoms, and at tee I
imagined I saw breakers on the lea bow, Ship rtfused
sta,ys; wore, but had no less water at midnight; passed
over the tail of the bank in 8 fathoms, five miles N.W.
of our former position. Continued to stand to the east-
ward until I could weather the south end of the shoal;
then tacked, passing in 16 fathoms, three miles south of
our first position. Whon I bore up north to fix its
wes'orn edge, a slight easterly current took me rather
farther in that direction than I intended. I have, how-
ever, confined it within a radius of five miles.

The weather would not allow of oar anchoring so as
to make a closer examination of the shoal with our
boats, and the sea was too heavy and hollow to attempt
taking the ship herself into less water. In approa?,hing
the shoal, the bottom changes from sand to fine sand,
and when in the least water coarse gravel and stones.
We fiund nothing less than 7 fathoms; but I am of opi-
nion that a bank exists which would bring a ship up.
August 14—We experienced very strong, variable,
and S.E. breezes, with rain, until midnight of the 14th,
when the wind changed to the westward, and brought
with ittne weather. Continued to stand to northward
and westward until noon on the 15th, being in lat. 71 12,
and long. 170 10; bore up west half south, passing se-
veral pieces of drift wood. Our sounding increased u
we left the bank (westerly) to 25 fathoms, mud.
August 16— Wind very variable in; strength, and di-
rection S.S.W. to S.E. Large flocks of phalaropes,
divers, and gulls, numerous. At midnight wind very
flash from S.S.E. steering W.S. W.; depth decreasing to
10 fathoms. _ _

At three A.m., fie 17th t.f August, the temperature of
the sea suddenly fell from 40 deg. to 36 deg. ; the
wind became light and excessively cold. Shortened sail,
supposing that I was very near the ice; frequently snow
showers.

At five a.m. wind shif.ed suddenly from the N.W. in
a sharp squall with heavy snow. Shortly sf er eight,
when one of these snow storms cleared off, the packed
ice was seen from the masthead from S.S.W. to N.N.W.,
live miles distant. The weather was so bad that I bore
up for the reudcz;ous. The weather, however, as sud-
denly cleared up. I hauled my wind for the north-
western extreme of the ice that had teen seen. At
9 40 the exciting report of " Laud-hol" was made
from the masthead; they were both soon aft?rwards
crowded.

In running a course along the pack towards our first
dLcovery, a stn.:ll group of islands was reported on our
port, beun, a cor:sidcrable distance within the outer mar-
gin of t) e

Tbo pack here was not so close as I fund it before.
Lanes c f vva'er ck,uld be ieen reaching temost up to the
group, but too ra row t-) act -r unless the ship had been
sufficiently f to tore° a hole for herself.
The :e small islands at intervals wet o very di- tinct, and
were rot considered at tie time very distant.
Still more distant than this group (from the deck) a
very extensive and high land was reported, which I. had
been watching for some time, and anxiously awaited a
report from some one *Le. There wus a tine clear at-
mosphere (such a one at can only be seen in this climate)
except in the direction of this extended land, where the
clouds rolled in numerous immense masses, occasionally
leaving the very lefi peaks uncapped, where could be
distinctly seen columns, pillarF, and very broken, which
is characteristic of the higher headlands in this sea—
East Cape and Cape Lisburt e, for example.
With the exception of the N.E. and S.F. extremes,
none of the lower land :could be area, unless, indeed,
what I took at first for a small group of islands within
the pack edge was a point uf this great land.
This island or point was distant twenty -fire miles from
the ship's track, higher parts of the land seen not less, I
consider, than sixty. When we bore to off the first land
seen the northern extreme of the great land showed out
to the eastward f a moment, and so clear as to cause
some who had doubts before to cry out, " There, Sir, is
the land quite plain."
From the time land was reported until we hove to
under it, we ran twenty-fire miles directly for it. At
first we could not at e that the pack joined it, but as we
approached the inland, we found the pack to test on the
island, and to extend from it as far as the eye could
reach to the F.S.E.

The weather, which had bcoi fine all day, now changed
suddenly to dense clouds and snow showers, blowing
fresh from the south, with so much sea that I did not
anchor es I intended.

I left the ship with two boats; the senior lieutenant,
Mr. Maguire; Mr. Seeman, naturalist; and Mr. Collin-
see, mate, in one; Mr. Goodridge, surgeon; Mr. Paken-
ham, midshipmaa ; and myself, in the other; almost
de:pairing of being ;He to reach the island.
The ship kept off, and outside the thicket pelt rf the
loose ice, through which the boats e e-o obliged to be
very ca,,eful in picking their way, on the S.E. side,where
I thought I might t ave ascended. Wo reached the
island, Ind found running on it a very heavy sea; the
first lieutenant, however, landed, 1 ming ba..!kel his boat
in until he could g• t foothold (without swimming), and
then jumped overly are'. I followed his example; the
others were anxious to do the same, but the sea was so
high that I could not permit thew.
We hoisted the jack and took possession of the island
with the usual ceremonials. in the name of her Moat
Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria.
The extent we bad to walk over was net more than
thirty feet. From this space and a short distance that
we scrambled up we colleetei eight species of plants;
specimens ef the rock were also brought away.
With the time we could spare and our matsrials, the
island was perfeet'y inaccessible to us. This was a
great disappointment to us, as from its summit, which is
elevated above the sea 1,400 fret, much could have been
seen, and all doubt set aside, more particularly as I
knew the moment I got on board I should be oblige.' to
carry sail t 3 get off tke pack and out of tke bight of it
wa were in; neither could I expect that st this late period
of the season the weather would improve.
The island on which I landed is four miles and a half
in extent east end west, and about two and a half north
and south, in the shape of a triangle, the western end
being its apex. It is almost inaccessible omit sides,
making
and a solid mass of granite. Innumerable black and
white divers (common to this sea) here found a safe
place to deposit th,ir eggs and bring up their young ;
not a walrus nor seal was seen on its shore, or on the
ice
to report a discovery of
land
lnabnii its
ds s.
vicinity
th a .w.e r Vs
so numerousobserved here
eunt ounsebeofof beforeehme
th'
ally landing on it.
after
the un'Ortunate mist Ike to the southward; but as
a man can be certain, who has 130 pair cf eyes to
lanldt
in
irothmoesse a
regionsn err nervous s
without hi n g
assist him, and all agre,ing, I am certain we have dis-
covered an extensive land. I think, also, it is more than
probable that these peaks we saw are 11, continuation of
the range of mountains seen by the natives off Cape
Jaken (coast of Asia). mentioned by Baron Wrangel in
his Polar vo) ages. Ire
facnodtp eery
this
reluctantlyinteieitili
gtu made at seven P.M ,
)oss.leto He couldutb
_c7aararty,
the wind at the time allowing me to lie just clear of the
nigrintaltistldo uttrohhe, .hlp

• August IS—Towards the morning we hal a very
strong wind, with constant snow stunt's and excessive
cold. The wind having changed to northward, left me
no choice but to return to my rendezvous for the boat/.
August 20 —Sigh ted Cape Listural in a thick fog;
hauled off to wait clear weather; passed several carcases
of whales. - -

Aupst 21—At two P.M. again made the Cape; found
the high land heavily covered with snow, and the low land
partially. Very threatening weather; remained off and
on until noon cf the 23d, when we anchored in fourteen
fathom?, about 25 miles to the southward of the Cape.
Here I landed, accompanied by the naturalist and seve-
ral ofikyrs. I erected a mark, and buried a bottle. A
tolutiful stream of water ran into this bay. The natu-
ralist had a good harvest on its banks, which were
literally covered with flowers, removed only a few reel
from what I considered to be perpetual snow. Quantities
of coal were afro fmnd here.
There were about 43 natives, all of whom we had
aeon before, very poor and milcrable-1104iogi Ivry