New-York daily tribune., 1858-12-17
DIR. HAYES ONARCTIC EXPLORA TIONS.
LECTURE BEFORE THE GEOGRAPHICAL
SOCIETY.


SOCIETY.
A regular meeting OF tie Auerican Geographical al
ard Statistical Society held last evening at the
Hall of the Historical Society, 10 Second street The
regular business Of the meeticg except the nomin elton
of menbers was suspended to hear a lecture by Dr..
Hsyee, vi accompanied DIR. Kane in his expedition
to the Arctic regions. The lecturer first alluded to the
cordial manner in which tho American Association for
ii advsnc. uent of science at Baltimore, the Amer
csn Philosophical Society, and other kindred associa-
tions bad ndorsed the op1ions of the Geographlci
Society tee lecturers pln for pursuing and confirm
ing Or. Kr1e's oiscoveries. Procee ling With DR..
Kane expedition he folio rod the discovery 4 WI
ian. Morton and his Esqumeaux Iaus Oa the west
shore of Greenland on Kennedy Caanuel. lie al-
uded to tDC other th0rIties which Indicated the *
istence Of sn open Polar sea. As Dr. Rink
of Copenhagen had criticized the c,rrectnesi
of NJ, rton'- sl-gcd discovery of aa open s-a,
he proceeded - exspine The evidences which
went to sto~ tie inc n c'l'ss OF the si'itnia
as uned by DR.. Rink. Mr. Morton lad the coni-
d,nce II Dr. Kene while NJ. Sontog, the astronomer
Of the exp, dition no mad instructed Morton in the
use # tie INSTRUMENTS for taxing ob.erv 'tocs, was
eir'nently satisfied with hls efor,' Tie lecturer then
enGeevcIed to reconcile the -beht iiaceu'dcios oi
Motions cb-erv it'cn- alleged " DR.. RINK, aftef
which le prOce.d'f to st.t9 the evld, Dces golaS
to prove tie reliability Of MOr'Ons s'itemeGts
&C th. open sea. He bad brought With hin,
On bie ieturn besr skms, aid Il was weh-
"a. Ham, tie Esquirnau,, sss inc9inp-i' nj :"
enter into coI spiraey - deceive =, h' coui' DC
Understood with difficulty. His testimony on ms re-
turn was that there was much water and many Dlfds
The brandts sLd seg-gu.ls were es-entsly marine
birds and could oby live the water aud myriads
were yearly to migrate noItn. Ihe isothernai
Ines too furnished evidence Of nIder climate fuf-
tier norts. Toe Esquimaux all point TO the e1reme
pcith the Gel tra home Of theT race ny the acc-
mutations Of ice many Of toe is In GitfereLt lati-
tudes bod become shut Of from one arOtber An eVi-
epce of the latitude ot their nativity being IN the
tTeme north was in the fact that a. one proceeded
south i was found that the race deterlOrated But
mole reliable evidence OF uniosr chdAte IN tne 4,
.reue north the lecturer regarded the observations OF
different expeditions which reported ocean currents
from the uOrth az being warner. ihe ob5-rva-
tiots Of the wind OIL DR.. kaDes expedition, too,
slowed that q norf-etst wiBd always bfoaght q
higher temperature. From the data in our possession,
Dr. Hayes was positive that the open sea always ex
isted He tDen detailed the pan Of his proposed
p.di,icp IL was TO proceed north Along Gfinne
Land ar far north practicable With the vessel, and
then selec, Winter qesrers. Going thence north they
Oh, ud establish d-pOts; AID this accomplished, they
should proceed north by boat mounted on slsdses 10
the open sea. lie expected 70 mud the Open water 10
attitude ST. if pot south, AID tho distance tnenc"
o the North Pole was but about 6O0 miles. TIE ex'
perieuce OF DR.. KaIes expedition showed that the
huuuoek ice was forced dosn or the Greenland shore
and the Winter quarters Of Kane being es'aohshed
then canned the mai difficulties which fhey e0c"dn-
tered in travelling. DIR. Hay observations on DIS
expedition I, Cspe Frsssr showed that the n1'nmock
c. I'D rot EXIT the west side Of the fee
b,fy Bay Cnnnel Land He had great r. ~ N
10 believe therefore be cou reach tue vessel near
10 Care Frs-, and thee,e tbc jontsy S"li1 De easy
=, b,a.s Ia fsytThble seisrn BE th"ustii u ut
.,,h, tn.t Y. - Eigtt pas, Stowe Cap. Ff.sst
! INTO tie Qe31 water ef heoseJy CnalIse uo Pro