The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-17

whales appearing, 1t was decided t, head northwards again, although they all regretted that circumstances did not permit them to proceed further south.
 On the 23d they were again at Cape Adair They landed that night being the first human creatures who ever put foot on the mainland. The pen guips were, if possible, even more nu- merous here than on the Possession Is- land and they were discovered on the very cape as far up as 1000 feet. In latitude 66, longitude 172,Sl, they ran into open water again, having this time only spent six days in the ice pack. On the 17th the Aurora appeared stronger than he ever saw the Aurora Borealis in the north, It rose from southwest stretching in a broad stream up towards zenith, and again towards the eastern horizon. The minimum temperature within the Antarctic Cir cle which they experienced was twen- | ty-five degrees r., the maximum being forty-six degrees r. The average tenn perature for January and February kept very much the same. The temper ature of the water kept at twenty-eight degrees F. all through the ice pack, al- ways rising one degree where larger sheet of water broke the ice fields. Iii the large bay at South Victoria Land the temperature kept constantly about freezing point. It was evident that @ warm. north-runnIng current existed in the bay. which undoubtedly had a con stant direction northwards and broke the ice fields at the very place where first Sir James Ross and they they sue cesfully penetrated to the open bay of Victoria Land Within the Antarctic Circle the barometer at twenty-nine al- way indicated calm, beautiful clear weather and even down to twenty eight it kept fine. This low barometric indication was remarkable where the dryness of the air should help in caus- ing high pressure. The movement of the ice distinctly pointed to a north easterly direction, and the scarcity of ice in the Bay of Victoria Land was un- doubtedly not alone owing to warm currents, but also 10 the protection which the bay had against drift ice by the shore from Cape Adair down to the volcanoes, the Erebus and Terror. A particular specimen of rock which he picked up, composed of quartz, felspar and garnet fragments, held out some hope that minerals of economic value might occur in those regions.
 He made thorough investigation of this landing-place because he believed that here was the very place where a future scientific expedition might stop safely, even during the winter months. Several accessible spurs led up from the place where they were to the top of the cape. From there a gentle slope led on to the great plateau of the South Victorian continent. The presence of the penguin colony, their undisturbed old nests, the vegetation on the rocks, and the flat table of the cape above, all indicated that here was a place where the unbound powers of the Antarctic Circle did not display the whole severi- ty of their forces. Neither ice nor vol canoes seemed to have ragged at the pe- ninsula at Cape Adair, and he strongly recommended that a future scientific expedition should choose this spot as a center for operations. At this conspic- uous cape there would, in his opinion, be ample opportunities for making ma- neurological observations, and scarcely any branch of science demanded re- search more than meteorology within the Antarctic Circle. He himself was willing to be the leader of a land party to be landed either on the pack or on the mainland near Colman Island, with ski, Canadian snow-shoes, sledges and dogs. From there 1t was his scheme to work towards the, South Magnetic Pole calculated by Ross to be in 75.05 and 150 east, and Colman Island lying in 7s.3s south and 170.02 east; he would have approximately to travel about one hundred and sixty miles to reach the South Magnetic Pole. If it were the means of determining the periodical changes in the Pole of terrestrial mag netism alone, a future expedition would, from a scientific point of view, be an entire success. As to the zoologi- cal result of future research, he expect ed great dicoveries. It would indeed be if in the unexplored victo- ria continent, which probably extended over an area of eight million square miles, or about twice the size of Eu- rope, there should not be found animal life hitherto unknown in the southern It was true that the scien- tif1c results of this expedition had been few, but where already so many impor- tant facts demanded further research, the arguments plainly proved that the time was ripe and that further delay of a scientific expedition to South Victoria continent could scarcely be Justified.
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