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by six. It is of a circular form, ten feet in diame- 
ter at the base, and about eleven feet high. In 
the centre of it we deposited an empty Donkin’s 
meat-canister, containing a slip of parchment, on 
which was written the same brief notice that was 
on the pieces that we left at the other places that 
I have already mentioned, viz. «‘ This was depo- 
sited here by a party from his Majesty’s ships 
Hecla and Griper, who wintered on this island in 
1819 and 1820.” In building it we left also a 
small passage, leading on an inclined plane from 
the outside to the centre, through which it is in- 
tended to convey a cylinder (that is to be sent out 
from the ship*), in which will be a paper giving a 
more detailed account of our stay, and object in 
visiting these regions, &c. As it was apprehended 
that we should find it disagreeable to travel in the 
heat of the day, instead of setting off to the ships 
after we had finished the monument, we retired, as 
usual, to rest. We broke up our encampment 
again, for the last time, at a quarter after three 
o’clock in the afternoon, and got on board by seven 
It was obtained from observations made at the monument that 
we erected on the top of it, viz. 
Latitude by meridian altitude 74° 48’ 33” N. 
Longitude by chronometer - 23 04 W. of the ships. 
Variation of the compass 123 16.01 E. 
* This cylinder was sent out after our return; and in the en- 
trance of the hole through which it was conveyed, there was 
fixed a copper-plate, on which was punched the names of the 
ships, and the date of the year. I may remark, also, in this 
place, that a similar plate was fixed on the south-west side of 
the pile that was erected on North-East Hill, near Winter 
Harbour. 
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