PREFACE. XI 



I have preferred giving my own observations on the Diurnal 

 Variation and Dip of the Magnetic Needle, to those of Commander 

 Ross, understanding that his will appear elsewhere. The Geology 

 is somewhat defective, from the impossibility of bringing home 

 specimens from the most interesting places; but the Meteorological 

 Tables, which have been kept according to the plan suggested by 

 Captain Beaufort, are submitted to the public as the most complete 

 of the kind ever published. 



The Surgeon's Report, and the Analyses of several Fluids, anil 

 the State of the Provisions which we found, require no comment. 

 These, with the Philosophical Observations, will be read with 

 interest. 



In the Tables of Latitude and Longitude of places on the newly- 

 discovered coast, I have given in italics the names which the* 

 natives gave them, for which there was not room in the chart, and 

 which will effectually correct the discrepances and omissions, 

 which have been noticed by the subscribers, but which was 

 occasioned by my unavoidable absence, and by my not being in 

 possession of Commander Ross's narrative until long after the chart 

 was printed and approved of by his Majesty; to whom it was 

 submitted by Commander Ross and myself, on our arrival, with 

 no names affixed. 



I ought also to observe that Sir Felix Booth, with whose 



