F. GEOGRAPHY. 221 



this point, after various stoppages, they were finally enabled 

 to embark for Copenhagen. 



This part of the narrative, admirably told, concludes with 

 an account of the original discovery of East Greenland, and 

 the successive voyages of exploration and discovery by which 

 additional information was obtained. The volume is accom- 

 panied by a general chart of the eastern coast of Greenland, 

 giving the results of all the exj^editions, and ending with 

 this voyage, of which the volume is a narrative. 



FICTITIOUS ACCOUNT OF PAVY's EXPLOKATIOXS. 



Several of the newspapers, have recently published, with 

 little or no word of comment, and some wath expressions of 

 astonishment, an account of the Pavy expedition, and its sup- 

 posed discoveries in Wrangell's Land. According to this 

 announcement, the ship Cadmus had arrived in San Francis- 

 co w^ith a dispatch from Mr. Pavy, and bringing the news 

 that this gentleman, with several associate professors, had 

 safely landed on Wrangell's Land, and, among other wonder- 

 ful discoveries, had found the remains of immense herds of 

 fossil elephants. Living arctic animals were also encountered 

 in great abundance, together with myriads of birds. Mr. 

 Pavy was preparing to winter at the 75tli degree of north 

 latitude, in the valley of the great river of the polar conti- 

 nent, and he felt certain of arriving, the beginning of next 

 season, at a polar ^ea of moderate temperature, and of after- 

 ward reaching the Atlantic through Melville Strait. It is 

 quite sufficient, in answer to this assertion, to say that, ac- 

 cording to the best information, Mr. Pavy, although having 

 occupied the current journals for a year or two with an ac- 

 count of his preparations, has not yet actually left San Fran- 

 cisco. The names of the gentlemen mentioned as his compan- 

 ions are, it is said, those of persons in San Francisco who 

 gave him a dinner in that city many months ago in anticipa- 

 tion of his speedy departure. 



SOUTH POLAR EXPLOEATION^. 



Dr. Neumayer continues to call the attention of the public, 

 especially that of Austria, to the importance of an explora- 

 tion toward the south pole, which, in his opinion, promises ' 

 results far more interesting than those upon the opposite end 



