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London, England, 1827-10-15 00:00:00

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My Sister. thy name
O'er my *ecru's. Core came
Like Mercy s pure beam from above ;
But now 'tis with fear
That loved name I bear,
I tremble to think of thy love.
A tomb is thy bed—
AU I cherished has Bed,
Save t►is luck which with tears I ensturbt;
'Twas all from the grave,
. That a Brother could save,
Thrice hallowed because it was thine.
Around thee shall Spring
Her early sweets Bing,
Thy low, lonely pillow adorning,
Yet nts more shalt thou grieve
For the fast-fading eve,
Nor rejoice in the intik of the morning,
As calm as the sky,
When evening's last sigh
Just closes the pageant of day,
Than angel more bright
Shined lire's latest light,

lbw fled with thy loplritaWay.
' Why should we deplore?
Are not ON sorrows o'er ? •
Is not tAy spirit blessed and free I"
But alas! I must mourn,
For thou can'st not return,
• bill I may not ate unto thee !
Farewell to thy shade,
Lovely innocent Maid,
Together again we Slay dweU;
Yet still must the voice
Which late made thee rejoice,
Nuw bid thee " for everfarneeN!"
Cilit Church, Oxford, 1827.

POLAR EXPEDITION.

G. C.

• PROM THE LITERARY 0/MITT&
h addition to the particulars which we last week
communicated to our readers respecting Capt. Palm's
expedition, we twee now the satisfaction of laying before
them some details which may also be relied of Ais
eqbally authentic. 7.
About the middle of May last, the Hecla, after forcing
her way through the battier of ice which commonly at
thitt season opposes the passage of ships to the north-
ward, E.-ached an open space of clear water, several
leagues wide, between tie ice and the north end of
Charles's Foreland, and sailed round Wikluyt's Head.
land into the northern entrance of Stnetenburg Harbour,
which we:found closed by une unbroken floe of ice,
sail firstly attached to tie land on every side. To this
the Hecht was made fast, with the intention of sawing
the ship into harbour ; a rio ent gale, however, from
the southward broke away the ice at the margin, and
the ship drifted, but was fortunately run into a smooth
place which presented itself in the pack or main ice.
Shortly alter this the wind shifted to the north-west-
yid, and the ice closed upon the land, preventing the
escape of the Hecla, and drifting her considerably to
the eastward, near Red Beach. Here the ship remained
beset with ice for several days, at the distance of about
five miles from the land, without any clear water in sight.
About the first week in June, a southerly gale drove
the ice off the land, and the Hecla into oren water, off
Waygats Strait, alter being 21t days hemmed in. Anzi.:
our search was now made fl'r a ha b.ur ; but the whole
coast was perfectly inaccessible, on account of the ice
being firmly attached to the shores in every part.
Captain PARRY therefore sailed towards the Seven
Islands, hoping to find them more clear from ice, and
to discover among them some Aelter for the ship; but
on arriving at Walden Island, the shores were there also
found entirely•blocked up by the same obstacle. Capt.'
Parry now proceeded to the n athward, among loose
and very broken ice, to lat. St deg. 5 min: 32 sec. being
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9 deg. SI min east, and might hate advanced
some miles farther to the northward in the theta, but
hit object was, if possible,-to find a safe harbour for
her, aad he again stood to the southward no altera-
tion in character, however, was to be perceived, the
shores being still locked up by an impenetrable barrier
of land ice. A place of shelter was at last di gowned
for the Hecla, in lat. 70 deg. 55 min. long. 16 deg. Sib
min. east, which appears to answer to Toleka
Bay" of the old Dutch charts; and here, by sawing a
emial for a quarter of a mile through the ice, she was
placed in a secure situation.
Captain Parry left the Hecla on the evening of the
;Ist of June, with two boats which had been constructed
for the purpose; Dr. Beverley accompanied him. The
other boat was under the command of Lieutenant Ross,
who was accompanied by Mr. Bird; and each boat had
'2 men, with a supply of provisions for 71 days. On
.aving 'Table Island there was scarcely any ice in sight;
.re weather was remarkably fine, and the sea was
smooth as a mirror.

After proceeding about ten miles, they came to a
body of ice, through which, however. they sailed some
distance to the northward, but were stopped by it at
noon on the 24th of June, being in lat. 81 deg. 12 min.
'll sec. from which time heir journey over tile ice corn..
mewed. The ice tcrou which they proceeded to the
iorthirard consisted entirely of small detached masses,
sometimes just so far separated as to render it necessary
to launch the boats and haul them up again—at other
irises close enough for them to cross from one to the
other by making bridges of the boats—occasionally
joined together, so as to enable them to step across,
though generally with great risk to their provisions,
and in ill cases requiting the most laborious exertions
:I allow them to make any progress. The surface of
the ice also was so irregular, and so covered with derp
snow, that even when they did meet with amass of bogie-
what longer extent than usual, the boats were moved
with difficulty, and it always requited two, and often
three or four journies, to transport their baggage; and
these journies were by so indirect a route, that they had
often to walk two miles to make good one mile of
northward way. Such, indeed, were the difficulties of
this travelling, that, notwithstanding the most strenuous
exertions of the Officers and men for *levels hours daily,
their progress to the northward did ant at first sicced
two or three miles a day. Captain Parry, however,
persevered, in the hope of .soon reaching the main or.
field-ice, which has always been spoken of as occurring
to the north of Spitsbergen, fad which Phipps (Lord
Mulgrave), upon the same mesidian, and even in a lati-
tude thirty miles to ilitaikatbWard, described as N, flat
and unbroken." am• .
As Captain Parntproceeded to the northward, he
occasionally met with a small floe, and likewise with a
few narrow holes of open water; but the greater part
of lit journey ons over loose and rugged masses; only.
akw y .7, .extent, requiring the boats •to
constaatly and hauled up, which con-
sumed cat time, and proved very exhausting
to the-melt:. Vitigoantity of fresh water on :the: ice
was bgietriLdilit they- were almost always wadies
thvoegh it, inkft.theirtfeet were", constantly wet with
snow-water for twelve bows oot of even 24, by which

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