New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-10-09

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To this is appended the following 1lotc
Lieutspan, Wilkes MAJ have mistaken some
fog banks, rhichn these reglon' are for tbs CONT
the appearance Of land to ineHperiencsa - h.
nsnt ald range Of lofty mountains. u So ~, - - -
regretted as it tend 10 throw 6Se'
portion Of his discoveries which hare "0e
| foundation
This is evidently intended TO deny all clam to
discovery on the part of Lieut.. WILKES. The
expedition returned to Van Dlemans Land ana
remained there through the season.
SECOND YEAn.-At the opening Of the second
year the Expedition went to Sydney and the Bay
of Islands to continue their magnetic observa
tons The exact correspondence Of the momen-
tary magnetic perturbatons was fully established
In Their Southern Exploration, the 18th Of
December, l84l, they again made and entered
the pack Of ice 800 miles farther north than be-
fore After sailing with great difficulty Tor about
300 miles, they again crossed the Antarctic circle
on New Years day, l542, and by the 18th
reached fcw miles of open sea. Here, for seye-
raj days, they encountered terrible storm, which
drove them into the midst Of immense masses OF
ice, where they underwent the most imminent
peril for some time. until the I'd OF February, when
they cleared the pack, after 46 days OF nnpnson-
,nent and having gone $50 miles directly through
IT, Fighting with severe gales and with obsta-
| cles OF every kind, on the 23d they again made
hoo fc,ty milo
where Their Iabors Of the first year had closed.
It's HIGHT was somewhat diminished and It's front
at that point consisted Of deep bays and capcs not
more than 60 or 70 feet in hight. Soundngs III
bed OF blue mud were obtained at 209 fathoms.
The barrier was traced about $50 miles farther
eastward than on the preceding year, but all be-
yond was fruitlcss and Capt Ross retraced his
course, which was greatly impeded by fogs,
heavy gales and icebcrgs. Two additional lines
of magnetic determination were obtained and the
Antarctic circle was taken. During the voyage
back to Cape Horn quartcrmaster Tell over
board and was drowned, and the ships were serl-
ousy injured by violent storms. Provisions were
obtained ironl Rio Janciro and the ships were
completely rclitted.
THIRD YEAR. December II, 1912, the cxpc-
diton again sailed from the Falkland lslandsan
on the 25th, was arrested in its progress by sol
id pack. Standing 10 the westward on the 2Sth,
land was discovered and found to be covered, Tor
a long extent to which it was explored, with snow
and ice which descended from q hight of from
1000 to 5000 feet to the sea. a dense fog forced
them to stand to the eastward, and on the 1th OF
January, 1913, III latitude 6lo IL 5. they were
bcset by ice, and Oh the 9Th discovered an island
of volcanic origin, which, though not more than
two miles in diameter, projects perfectly formed
crater to the hight Of $500 feet above the sea- 1t
lies in lat. 6lo II S. and long. So 49' w.
tabc-toppcd mountain rose to the
west to the hight of 1000 feet, and the whole
western shore Of the guIf consisted of mountain
ranges covered with everlasting snow. The gulf
was named the Gulf of Ercbus and Terror, and is
about 40 miles between the capcs and as many
deep. 1t was full Of heavy pack ice, though the
land to the southwest was clear for ~ miles,
where they again Game TO perpendicular cliffs
descending from mountain 1000 feet high
They were now for long time beset by ice.
On the 18th of Feb. they again came INTO clear
water and nearly crossed In lat. 65o, the track
SAID to have been made by Weddcll, though they
found ice where he found open sea. They could
not penetrate beyond lat. 64o Is S. and on the
22d crossed the line Of no variation IN lat. b4e
and long. 24o w in dip Of 81 40, which with
the observations made seemed to prove that there
is in realty but magnetic pole IN the southern
hemisphere. All the observations tended to Tx
the position of this pole where the first years OBJ
servation had placed it. On the LIST of March they
crossed the Antarctic and being becalmed on the
23d in lat go 81 and long. l2S ~ w. 1000 faith
omsol line failed to reach the bottom. They at
tempted but unsuccessfully, to 90 still farther
south: they were overtaken by terrible storms,
from which they fortunately escaped, and on the
18th reached the latitude of Bonnet Island
which, however, they could not find. They
reached the Cape Of Good Hope on the 18th OF
April, and at the end Of that month sailed for En-
gland.
The results of this Expedition arc said to be
exceedingly rich and important. They have
brought home an immense number OF specimens
of every kind, which have been deposited
in the Admiralty In the highest ATTITUDES
which they reached, and much within the
Antarctic Circle, they procured by dredging many
specimens of shells and living creatures, believed
to be exceedingly rare and valuable. or animals
there were none, and birds were very few. a new
species of white petrol was obtained; but most OF
the ornithological specimens were Identical with
those of the Arctic region. The penguin was
always found on the ice, and at immense dis
tanceS from land, where It's existence seemed
perfect mystery. Many Of them were very large,