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for a small group of islands within the pack edge was 

 a point of this great land. This island, or point, was 

 distant twenty-five miles from the ship's track ; higher 

 parts of the land seemed not less, I consider, than sixty. 

 When we hove to off the first land seen, the northern 

 extreme of the great land showed out to the eastward 

 for a moment, and so clear as to cause some who had 

 doubts before to cry out, ' There, sir, is the land quite 

 plain. ' ' They afterwards ran up to the island, and 

 landed upon it, and found it a solid and almost inaccess- 

 ible mass of granite, about four and a half miles long, 

 two and a half miles broad, and fourteen hundred feet 

 high. Its situation is latitude 71 20' north, and longi- 

 tude 175 16' west. The distant mountainous land 

 seemed to be extensive, and was supposed by Captain 

 Kellett to be a continuation of the lofty range seen by 

 the natives off Cape Jakan, in Asia, and mentioned by 

 Baron Wrangell, in his Polar Voyages. 



In the vicinity of Cape Lisburn, on the 24th August, 

 the Nancy Dawson, and the return boats of Lieut. 

 Pullen's expedition, rejoined the Herald. They had 

 searched the coast as far east as Dease's Inlet, and had 

 there parted with the two whale-boats ; and had, at 

 several points, made deposits of provisions, but had not 

 obtained the slightest intelligence of the missing adven- 

 turers. Mr. Shedden had been particularly active and 

 daring, and had many times put his yacht in peril. 

 And, it is painful to add, though this is said in antici- 

 pation of the date, that he fell a victim to his excessive 

 exertions during the noble service. He died, eight or 

 ten weeks after, at Mazatlan. 



On the 1st of September the two ships and the yacht 

 rendezvoused in Kotzebue Sound. Upwards of a fort- 

 night was now spent in making an interesting explora- 

 tion up the Buckland Hiver, and in establishing friendly 



