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Ross in the chart ;" adding, " for I believe no indi- 

 vidual can have exerted himself more strenuously 

 to rob it of this distinction." Anything that con- 

 fers a distinction on the name of James Ross is 

 worthy of recording ; and such is the following pas- 

 sage from Sir William Hooker on the " Botany :"— 

 " Those species that were gathered in Ross's Islet 

 are peculiarly interesting, from the circumstance of 

 that island constituting the most northern known 

 land in the world." The plants named are — 

 Bryum — Hypnum (two species) — Tricostomum — 

 Polytrichum — Jungermannia — Gyrophora (Rock- 

 tripe, two species), Cetraria — Cenomyce (Rein- 

 deer grass, two species), Stercoiolon — Sphseropho- 

 ron — Alectoria — Cornicularia — Ulva— Philota. 



It was not till the 21st of August that they ar- 

 rived on board the Hecla, after an absence of sixty- 

 one days, " being received, " says Parry, "with that 

 warm and cordial welcome which can alone be felt 

 and not described." Thus ended at Spitzbergen 

 this novel and perilous expedition, of which, though 

 the object was not accomplished, every officer and 

 man employed in it may be proud. Thus far Parry 

 concludes his narrative : 



" The distance traversed during this excursion was five 

 hundred and sixty-nine geographical miles; but allowing 

 for the number of times we had to return for our baggage 

 during the greater part of the journeys over the ice, we 

 estimated our actual travelling at nine hundred and seventy- 



