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had permission to take some from the dish, and found 

 it ever elude the grasp, their astonishment knew no 

 bounds." 



From Wainwright Inlet, which is between Icy Cape 

 and Point Barrow, the Herald sailed along the pack to 

 the westward, reaching her highest north, 72 51', in 

 163 48', and, on the 17th of August, Kellett landed 

 on and named Herald Island in 71 17' 45", a mass of 

 granite towering nine hundred feet above the sea, under 

 five miles long and three broad, inhabited mainly by 

 black and white divers and yielding the collector only 

 four flowering plants. Further to the west he sighted 

 Wrangell Island, sailed past and named by the Ameri- 

 can whaling captain, Thomas Long, in August, 1867. 



In 1881 Wrangell Island was thoroughly explored 

 by another search expedition, that of Captain Berry in 

 the American ship Rodgers, who was in these parts 

 looking out for traces of the Jeannette. He found it 

 to be, not a continent as some had supposed, but an 

 island forty miles broad and sixty-six miles long, about 

 thirty miles from Herald Island and eighty from the 

 Siberian coast; and on it, as on all these Siberian 

 islands and the coast of Alaska, remains of the mam- 

 moth were found. Examining the ice to the north- 

 ward, he reached 73 44' in 171 30', being fifty-three 

 miles further north than Kellett and twenty -four miles 

 further than Collinson in 1850. Returning from the 

 north to winter quarters he achieved another Arctic 

 record in his ship being destroyed by fire in St. Law- 

 rence Bay on the Asiatic side of Bering Strait. 



Opposite this, on the American side, from Cape 

 York downwards the land trends away to the south- 



