WASHINGTON LAND. 



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British flag upon the sea nearer to the North Pole 

 than any flag had been carried hitherto, I have 

 planted the American flag further north upon the 

 land then any flag has been planted before. The 

 Bay between Capes Frederick VII. and Eugenie I 

 name in honor of the distinguished geographer, Dr. 

 Augustus Peterman ; and two large bays lower down 

 the coast I call, respectively, after Carl Ritter and 

 William Scorsby. 



In plotting my survey I have been a little puzzled 

 with the Washington Land of Dr. Kane's map, and I 

 am much tempted to switch it off twenty miles to the 

 eastward ; for it is not possible that Kennedy Chan- 

 nel can be less than fifty miles wide ; and, since I 

 believe that Smith Sound expands into the Polar 

 Basin, I must look upon Washington Land merely 

 as an island in its centre, — Kennedy Channel lying 

 between it and Grinnell Land on the west, and Hum- 

 boldt Glacier filling up what was once a channel on 

 the right. 



