The Section is a piece of the Admiralty North Polar Chart, 1849, and of the same scale. The whole area embraced is 655 geographical miles by 1000. Artificial features, such as villages or towns, there are none. The named localities, all natural, number about 482, of which there are on our section 167; the absentees, transposed from the Admiralty two-sheet Chart of Arctic America, 1849, and introduced by symbols, amount to 315, each and all found independent of latitude and longitude.

DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS AVAILABLE AS FOOD IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS.*

I.-NORTH STAR, Master Saunders, wintered at Wolstenholme Sound, September 30th to August 1st, 1849-50; during the whole period obtained but fifty hares and a few wild ducks; several foxes also shot.-Nautical Magazine, November 1850.

II. ENTERPRISE and INVESTIGATOR, Captain J. C. Ross, wintered in Port Leopold 1848-49. Account kept on board the last named vessel shows the "number of birds killed to have amounted to about 4,000, yielding near 2,500 lbs. of meat. But more than this was obtained if the number shot by individuals for amusement, and not always noted, be included.— Nautical Magazine, x1x, p. 166.

III. Sir John Ross, when at Boothia Felix, 1829-33, found musk oxen,

deer, bears, foxes, hares, &c., frequent; and partridges, ptarmigans, and ducks, numerous. Salmon were very abundant in the lakes-in one instance (see Voyage, p. 583) 3,378 were taken at a single haul. The fish averaged, when cleaned, 3 lbs.

IV.-Sir W. E. Parry, wintering at Melville Island, 1819-20, found Polar hare very abundant-considerable numbers shot during the summer as a supply of provisions for the ships' companies-average weight about 8lbs. Musk oxen, only three killed. Rein-deer in considerable numbers from May to October-twenty-four were killed during that interval. Snow bunting very numerous. Rock grouse in great abundance-are easily killed, especially in the breeding season, when the female will suffer herself to be taken on the nest. Killed in considerable numbers at Melville Island as a supply of provisions to the ships' companies. Golden plover in considerable abundance. Ring plover abundant on the shores of Possession Bay and Prince Regent's Inlet. Brent goose in great numbers on the island. King duck very abundant. V.-Parry (1821-23) referring to Melville Peninsula, says (Voyage, p. 512),

that "the rein-deer are killed by the Esquimaux in great abundance in the summer season. For several weeks in the course of the year the natives retire to the banks of lakes in the interior, which they represent as abounding with salmon, while the pasture near them affords good feeding to numerous herds of deer."

* Where the vegetable matter of the earth's surface is carpeted with snow, the purity of the air must be great, and high winds, unchecked by forests, must convey horizontally any scent to an amazing distance; but to the keen noses of carnivorous creatures, the smoke and fumes from fried animal matter must be enticing from an immense range. It is comforting to think that this power of allurement will assist Franklin's means of eking out his existence.

Extract from (page 75) Captain Beechey's North Polar Voyage, H.M.S. DOROTHEA and TRENT, under Captain David Buchan.

"We set fire to some sea-horse fat, in order to entice within reach of our muskets any bears that might be ranging the ice. About midnight, the agreeable odour of the burnt blubber brought a white bear within musket range, which we killed and captured."

VI. ARCTIC SEARCHING EXPEDITIONS, 1850-51. (From Arrowsmith's recent Map.) The following are Lieut. McClintock's and Capt. Penny's accounts of animals killed or seen.

To find a Name from the Symbol and Compartments, &c. upon the Map.

EXAMPLE.-What place is indicated by -o (West), compartment 9, in Biv

square?

In the Table of Reference, under B iv square, in the first column stands 9 and opposite the symbolo (West), bracketed on to the 9, stands Cape Herschel, the name sought.

C

THE

ARCTIC EXPLORING EXPEDITIONS.

(Extracted from the Nautical Magazine, October 1851.)

A REVIEW OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE ARCTIC SEARCHING EXPEDITIONS, under the Command of Captain H. T. Austin, C.B., and Captain Penny, with the recent despatches.

"ARCTIC intelligence which concerns so numerous a portion of our countrymen abroad, and therefore deeply interesting to us at home, has now become of so much importance, that we need offer no other reason for allowing it to occupy so large a share of our attention. We shall, therefore, not only gratify our own readers now, but our absent voyagers hereafter, by preserving a full record of their gallant doings.

"Captain Penny has returned with his ship the LADY FRANKLIN,* and has brought favourable' intelligence, for such is the concluding sentence of the

* With the view of facilitating a reference to the names of all the vessels and their several officers on these expeditions, we insert here the following list of them.

I.-H.M.S. RESOLUTE.-Captain, Horatio T. Austin; Lieutenants, R. D. Aldrich, William H. J. Browne; Master, Robert C. Allen; Surgeon, Abraham R. Bradford; Paymaster and Purser, John E. Brooman; Mates, Richard B. Pearse, Walter W. May, John P. Cheyne; Assistant Surgeon, Richard King; Second Master, George F. M'Dougal.

II.-H.M.S. ASSISTANCE.-Captain, Erasmus Ommanney; Lieutenants, Francis L. M'Clintock, James E. Elliott, George F. Mecham; Surgeon, James J. L. Donnett; Mates, George R. Keene, Richard V. Hamilton; Assistant Surgeon, Charles Ede; Second Master, Frederick J. Krabbé; Clerk in Charge, Edward N. Harrison; Clerk, Charles Richards, (b).

III.-H.M.S. PIONEER, steam tender to RESOLUTE.-Lieutenant, Sherard Osborn; Assistant Surgeon, Thomas R. Pickthorne; Second Master, John H. Allard.

IV.-H.M.S. INTREPID, steam tender to ASSISTANCE.-Lieutenant, B. Cator; Assistant Surgeon, John Ward (a); Second Master, William Shellabeer.

V.-LADY FRANKLIN.-Captain, W. Penny; Executive, First Mate, Mr. John Marshall; Second Mate, Mr. John Leiper; Third Mate, Mr. John Stewart; Surgeon, Mr. Thomas Goodsir; Interpreter, Mr. Petersen.

VI. SOPHIA, tender to the LADY FRANKLIN.-Captain, Alexander Stewart, Commander; Executive, First Mate, Mr. Donald Manson; Second Mate, Mr. James Reid; Surgeon, Mr. Peter Sutherland. VII.-FELIX.-Captain, Sir John Ross, R.N., accompanied by Commander Phillips. VIII. MARY, yacht tender to FELIX.

IX.-U.S.S. ADVANCE.-Lieutenant Commander, E. J. De Haven (Philadelphia), Commander of the Expedition; Master (acting), W. H. Meerdaugh (Norfolk); Midshipman, W. S. Lovell (New York); Surgeon, Dr. Kane; Crew, 15.

X.-U.S.S. RESCUE.-Master Commander, Passed Midshipman, J. P. Griffin (Savannah); Master (acting), R. R. Carter (Virginia); Midshipman, Brooks; Surgeon, Dr. Vruland (New York); Crew, 13.

XI. THE PRINCE ALBERT, commanded by Mr. Kennedy, sailed for Prince Regent's Inlet in May last. The vessels under the orders of Captain Austin sailed in May 1850.

We also add here the ENTERPRISE and INVESTIGATOR, having gone to the Polar Sea by Behring Straits in January 1850.

XII.-ENTERPRISE.-Captain, R. Collinson, C.B.; Lieutenants, George A. Phayre, John J. Barnard; Additional, Charles T. Jago; Surgeon, Robert Anderson; Mates, M. T. Parkes, Rowland T. G. Legg; Assistant Surgeon, Edw. Adams; Second Master, Francis Skead; Clerk in Charge, Edw. Whitehead. XIII. INVESTIGATOR.-Commander, Robert J. L. M. McClure; Lieutenants, William H. Haswell, Samuel G. Cresswell; Surgeon, Alexander Armstrong, M.D.; Mates, Robert J. Wynniatt, Henry H. Sainsbury; Assistant Surgeon, Henry Piers; Second Master, Stephen Court.