1852.] COPY OP NOTICE. 85 



at the opposite point from which she had vanished. Dr. 

 Lyall, who accompanied me, used every endeavour to take 

 her, but she never permitted him to get within range. 

 I once came suddenly upon her, but, not having my gun 

 in hand, she escaped. The determination of this position 

 proved it to be the rise of Point Hogarth, and yet none 

 of Captain Penny's travellers noticed this obelisk ! It is 

 situated in lat, 76 12' 52" N., long. 92 48' 42" W., the 

 variation 146 11' 51" W. ; a most unmistakable eminence, 

 to which I have given the name of Lyall Bluff, is almost 

 immediately adjacent. The terraced levels were strewed 

 with bivalves, chiefly of the Mi/a tribe. As an example 

 of the notices deposited at each cairn visited by any ex- 

 ploring officer, I beg here to add the one left at this sta- 

 tion ; they were printed forms, filled in by the officer in 

 command of each party. 



Arctic Searching Expedition, under tlie Command of Captain Sir 

 Edward Belcher, C.B. 



DIRECTION. 



Ships. ' Assistance ;' Tender, ' Pioneer.' Wellington Channel. 

 ' Resolute' (H. Kellett) ; Tender, ' Intrepid.' Melville Island 

 Lane. 



Depot or General Rendezvous. '.North Star,' Beechey Island. 



Left Beechey Island, Saturday, 14th August, 1853, at ten P.M. 



Proceeding towards Sir Robert Inglis Bay, westerly. 



Dai/. Monday: date, August 16, 1852 : time, three P.M. 



Condition. All well. 



Remarks. Landed, believing the remarkable stone pillar, inland, to be 

 a cairn erected by human hands. Observed for latitude, longi- 

 tude, and variation, and to correct chart. 



EDWABD BELCHEK, Captain, 



Officer in Charge. 



The day was really entitled to the appellation of lovely; 



