Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-09-25


| 1850, he says:
From the top of Beechey Island August 23) had
tensiye view Of Wellington Channel and CORVALLIS Island
nothing close body Of ice could be SEEM unbroken
field of ice covering an extensive sea 10 the norhward but
no land risitie beyoad
the 25th lead opened the strait towards Cape
Hoham therefore considered it my duty avail myself Of
this opportunity carry out instructions and examine
spot where felt confident record would be left by the Ex-
petition their progress westward The Intrepid dis
patched under steam TO execute this service whilst fol-
lowed under canvass tsat11H3
During the day Capt Penny communicated with me- and
having informed him Of intention he returned to search
the bay side Beechey Island We kept along the solid field
of ice extending from Cape Innes to Barlow Inlet which
bounded the horizon TO the norhward and where land
oisible."
.When miles Of Barlow Inlet the pack ice closed
the main foe, and stopped my further progress where
the Intrepid joined us.
In this position continued beset in Wellington Channel
from the 25h ulmo the Sd Instant strong southeastcry
winds and thick weatherpreyailing." sf
These extracts from 0mmanney's report furnish
abundant proof that discovery made by him on
the Goth of August 1850 They show that on that day
he was fast the ice Barlow Inlet on the western
shore of Wellington Channel and that he saw no land
the northward when crossing the channel on the 25th
from the top Of Beechey Island, where he
the 3d. elevation of eight hundred feet
Capt Ommanney himself then exposes the utter ground
lessness of the assertion Of Mr. Aowsmh made on the
authority of his Journal that he discovered land
the north Prince Aberts birthday, In 1850 1t is
possible that an entry such Mr. Arrowsmth refers to-
may be found his Journal but no one who reads
his letter of the 10th of September believe that such
entry made there in August, 1885, before his
return to England, September %, 1851.
Mr.. Arrowsmith's followed by another map, ema-
mating from the highest authority in England and is the
last in the SERIES far showing the origin and progress
of the discovery of Albert Land and Sir John Barrow
monument. 1t is entitled g Discoveries in the Arctic
Seas to 1851. London, published according to act of
Parliament the Photographed Office fthe Admiralty
April s, 1852" This prepared for publication long
after the Admiralty were in possession Of De Ravens
port for his report included in the papers entitled
|" Further Correspondence and Proceedings connected
with the Arctic Expedition; presented to both Houses of
Parliament by command of Her Majesty - and printed
early in February ; from which it copied by Lieut.
Osborn into his Stray Leaves from Arctic Journal
published in London, February 10, 1852 Indeed the
map itself shows that the report before the dydro
grapher when it constructed. .t
The Admiralty therefore knew what discoveries De
Haven had made in September 1850 They probably
feared the fraudulent pretensons of Mr. Arrowsmth and
Capt Ommanney to the discovery of Albert Land on the
Goth of August 1885, the Princes birthday, would be
detected and that it could only be made English dis
covery by relying entirely the independent explora-
ton of it by Penny and his officers in May 1851 and
by rejecting and dscredng Ravens discovery made
eight months earlier that is by doing precisely what
had been done before in regard to the discovery of the
Antarctic Continent by Capt. Wilkes.
The coast line of the Northern land is placed few
miles further the north by Stewart than by De Haven
Stewart makes Cape Smpknson 760 l9/, while De Haven
made Mount Franklin 76o 81 showing difference of four
teen miles AS there is but land there extending
from west and that the land first seen by De
Haven he Stewart must be wrong fourteen miles
perhaps neither may have it precisely correct is
possible from his distance and knowing the height of
land De Haven might not be exact
greater error committed at another point
McDouga carried the water Of McDougall bay in ong
tude $50 20r west the northward of Goodsrs south
line of the Queens Channel making CORVALLIS
Island island This collision of the Explorers was
noticed and corrected by the photographer who placed
halt off and
ss connected shore line Victoria channel was secured
and Bathurst Island and CORVALLIS Island made
land though this latter fact does not appear have
been very satisfactorily determined Goodsir had no
instruments. His journal at midnight on the 25th Of
May the place in question, breaks off abruptly in
the middle of sentence while he the ice in the
middle of Manson bay which had very much the APP
pearance Of deep inlet and in the morning of the
day from elevation Of two hundred feet few miles TO
the eastward OF his terminus, he found level
stretching out to the south considerable distance
the view in that direction bounded by high hills McDou-
gall was at Neal Island on very near the same meridian
the 9th Of June when he observed carefully from
hill in the centre of the island and land north of
him round the head of the bay his view in any
direction bounded by high hills This overlapping Of
waters and ATTITUDES and other discrepancies of observa
tons, presented difficulty to the photographer With
bold and strong hand he separated the and put
dry land between them; and at the same time, made
low isthmus Of Dr. Goodsir's high hills.
All these and other corrections and alterations were
adopted by the Admiralty But they do not admit the
possibility of error by De Haven by Stewart in
regard to the exact position of the coast line Of Grnne
Land There they do not hesitate moment, but come
at to the absurd conclusion that Baillie Hamilton
Island with eastern front running north and south is
The Grinnell Land Of the U. s. Squadron, which runs
east and west and that De Havens assertion that he
land where he has marked Grinnel Land is untrue
Indeed there middle path to take. They had
either to admit DE Ravens statement to be true
ject il untrue for, to charge him with committing
blunder of few miles would be an admission Of his dis
covery, which, apparently, it their determination
from the first to deny. a t1 Hs
Though Grinne Land has place the Admiralty
map, TO Mount Franklin which appeared for the first
time on an English map they have assigned quite con-
picuous position They found Grnnel Land moved four
teen miles to the NORTH but instead Of placing Mount
Franklin on the parallel with It, they showed the
latter round to the eastward IN longitude 2S Of their
map and changed its bearing from north northeast to
northeast and then, If to convict De Haven Of mis-
representation or ignorance, they Marked on Ballie
Hamilton Island four degrees and half to the westward
" The Grinnell Land of the u. s. Squadron
by this cunning but unfair and uniustifsbe Device
for Mount Franklin and Grinnel Land and
the same coast, north Of De Ravens Bay,) /" Mount
Franklin OF De Haven is placed the east side Of the
Bay as 1t Is drawn their maps within ten miles of the
coast between Barring Bay and Point Hogarth in very
fat country where Captain Stewart says when speaking
OF the place where he buried some provisions:
I'VE buried them and built large cairn mark the place
so tna we gt not pass II in returning the land being
low ana nat mat there was rothng whatever TO make one
being the highest thing in for miles and niles
hummocks in the ofhng."
There could, then, be no Mount Franklin there.
Thus by cutting De Ravens Discovery into two parts
to the south Of their northern line they endeavor
TO make II quite clear that he did not see Grnne Land
at all, and that there be Mount Franklin and
therefore All that he says about discovering land to the