CONTENTS. Vll 



CHAPTER VIII. 



I'AGK 



Thaw. Pools of Water. Cracks. Final Preparations. Extracts 

 from Despatch. Volunteers to proceed to the ' Assistance. '- 

 Effect of Tides. State of the Ice. Thoughts on Flitting.- 

 Evils of Detention. Withdraw the Crews. Arrival of the 

 'Phoenix' and 'Talbot.' Final Instructions. Tablet to M. 

 Bellot. Beechey Island. Navy Board Inlet. Lievely. Ar- 

 rive at Cork .... . . 209 



CHAPTER IX. 



Import of Instructions. Further Search impossible. Leaving 

 the ' Talbot.'- -Dr. Rae's Information. Finds undeniable 

 Traces. Dissection of Report. State of the Bodies. Thr 

 Quantity of Relics. List of Articles found. Opinion on the 

 Information. Impressions of 1850-1852. Official Letter. 

 Captain Collinson's Discoveries. Opinion on the North-west 

 Passage. Rewards due for Discovery 241 



APPENDIX. 



A. OEDEKS 263 



B. General Report on the Provisions, Preserved Meats, Comforts, 

 Clothing, etc., constituting the Sea Stock of H.M.S. Assistance 284 



C. Winter Fittings 290 



D. Weight and Analysis of Cubes of Salt W^ater or Floe Ice . .292 



E. Observations on Ice Crystals .298 



F. General Tables of Meteorology ... 306 



G. Comparative Tables of Temperature, obtained from Arctic 

 Voyages, 1819 to 1855 335 



Account of the Fish, by Sir John Richardson . . . .347 

 Account of the Arctic Carboniferous Fossils, by J. W. Salter . .377 

 Note on some remains of an Ichthyosaurus, by Professor Owen . 389 

 Account of the Shells, by Lovell Reeve . .... 392 

 Account of the Crustacea, by Thomas Bell 400 



