Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-13

correspond exactly Win LIZ. f1dIiiS pie.
dictions.
. Prof Henry Gannett, geographer Of the
geological survey and president or the
National Geographic Society. was un-
aware that a Russian expedition was ex-
ploring in the vicinity. where the land
was found. He said, however, that there
was every reason to regard the announce
ment as true.
Views Of Gen. Greeley.
: Maj Gen. A. w. Greedy, arctic explorer
and scientist. thinks some error must have
been made in describing the location Of
the newly found continent, though he was
not inclined to doubt that an important
discovery had been made.
The general said today that Decem-
Der Is, 1894. the Fran. in which DR.. Nam
sen drifted in the arctic regions, was in
latitude $3.50, :, longitude 104 just a
little north OF where the southern ex-
tremity Of the land reported to have been
party saw no land and SO confident was
he that none existed in the vicinity. Of his
vessel that he has argued since that tn >
unexplored portion Of the Arctic ocean Is
q deep BASIN. Gen. rGreely suggested
that 1t hardly seemed possible mat q
continent Of. tte size of Greenland could
exist between the drift path of the Fran
and Cape Chelyuskin. the northernmost
point Of Asia.
That unexplored land about the size OF
Greenland does exist within the arctic
circle north Of Alaska and eastern Sibe-
ria, as distinguished from western SIDE
ria, where the Russians are said to have
discovered land. has been the theory OF
scientists for years.
Observation Of Flood Tides.
DR.. Harris Of the coast and geodetic
survey years ago put forth the so-called
Harris theory that large area Of undis-
covered land was located within the cir
Gle. His contention was based on tidal
servations on his last trip to the arctic re-
Rear Admiral Peary. who was assigned
by President Roosevelt to make tidal OBJ
servation on his last trip to the arctic re-
gions for DR.. Harris benefit
DR.. Harris observed that at Point Bar
row the flood stream Of the tide came
from the west and not from the north.
as the hypothesis Of an extended and deep
polar basin would indicate. The udai
hours at arctic points also led him to be-
lieve that a large body of land interrupts
ed part of the flow from the north. Dr..
Harris is now in Bermuda on a vacation.
Gen. Greedy arrived at the same con-
clusion about land to the westward OF
Grinnell land. but by a different method
I1lS opinion WAS odSoQ OH TIC pICsd1SASO
In the Arctic ocean Of large numbers OF
hat-topped icebergs, which had previously
been called by Admiral Sir George Mares,
Royal Navy. paleocrystic bergs. The hat
topped bergs were found to be of enor-
nous size, some Of them ten miles long,
several miles wide and hundreds of feet
high. Gen. Greedy considered the I'M
portant point about them to be that they
often showed parallel lines of ice forma-
ton. the result of compressed snowfaiis OF
several years. :
Formed ON Level Land.
Such structural features. he had learn
ed. are not found on bergs coming from
known arctic lands, although common In
the antarctic regions. The general rea--
soned that such bergs could only be
formed on level land of considerable ex-
tent, and that as they did not come from
6pitxbergen. Greenland or Grinnell land
they must have come from an unknown
land He expressed this conclusion In a
published article in 1885, and in a book
written by him in 1905 said that within
the main north polar basin there Is pos