The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-31

plore the ice packed section of coast 'front.'
ing Iceland and connect the discoveries of
Graah and Holm in the south with those OF
Scoresby and Claverng in the north.
a small party of scientists from the Berlin
Geographical Society are preparing to go
this summer to the west coast of Greenland
to study the inland ice"
The writer will go out about the 1st of
June under the auspices of the Academy
of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia to
North Greenland TO attempt the location of
the northern terminus of that country.
liz route to be followed, method of eXecu-
ton anu details of equipment, my project
presents some original features. 1t has, 1t
is believed as far as can be judged in adj
vance of methods proposed for region
where conditions are VIGOROUSLY uncertain,
elements of simplicity and effectiveness,
and it has met the unqualified approval of
the highest geographical and scientific
authorities.
1t is the fist attempt to reach high lati-
tude in Greenland overland, and will be the
| first American expedition to utilize the Nor
wegian snow-shOe or skate, which L found
so invaluable in my preliminary reconnois-
sance of the Greenland inland ice in 1886.
In lectures before the Philadelphia Acad-
| emy of Natural Sciences, the American Geo
| graphical Society, and the National Geo
graphic Society, the project has been out
| lined briefly as follows:
MY party, mum bering five or six. to ar
| rive next June or early in July at Whale
| Sound. Remainder of the season to be spent
| in putting up winter quarters in Whale
| Sound, laying in store Of meat. collecting,
| surveying, making "Reminiscences OF the
| Finland ice, and if the season be faVoTa-
| BILE, establishing an advance depot OF SUP
| plies near the southern angle OF Humboldt
| Glacier The winter to be occupied in fit
/ cIaHUaS plathinO and ira Yelling nQlliD
ment ana in sn0w-shoe and skier practice,
! for which the brad OF Whale Sound is we'll
| adapted.
| Next spring four or five of the party
will start over the inland ice 10 Hum boldt
! Glacier with full Sleds, leaving one or TWO
| in charge of the house. Ii favorable pro-
| gress is made the party will go on from
| HUMBOLDT Glacier TO the head of PeteTmana
! Ford Here a second depot will be estab-
| lished and two or three OF the party with
! full sledges will push on, TIE others return
| ing with light Sledges to Whale Sound.
1.-THE advance party will push on from
! Petermann Fjord TO the head OF Sherard OS-
| borne Tj0rd, establish depot there; thence
| to the head of De Long tj6rd, establish a
| depot there; thence to the northern terml-
| nus of Greenland. This point reached and
| determined, the advance party will retrace
| its steps to Whale Sound, taking mp the
| various depotS. and seize the first oppor-
| tunity TO return home"
| The whole theory or THIS PROJECT Is Dased
| upon the fact that the interior of South
| and Middle Greenland is known to be COW
| cred with an uninterrupted ice-cap. and the
more than probability that in North Green
| land the conditions are the same. and the
| ice-cap practically eoextensiye with the
| land.
| This ice-cap, except at the edge. is covered
more or less deeply with snow, and on re-
| turning from his journey into the interior in
| 1886 the writer styled this unbroken snow
surface, for properly equipped party, the
| Imperial highway of inner Greenland"
and is believed to be the first to advocate its
| advantages as "a route by which to reach
and determine the northern terminus of
Greenland in the quickest, safest and most
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