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their advance at all under these circumstances will be 

 fully appreciated by Arctic explorers. 



On the 27th September Aldrich had succeeded in 

 reaching latitude 82° 48' K, a somewhat higher lati- 

 tude than had ever before been attained, our gallant 

 predecessors, Sir Edward Parry, Sir James Eoss, Dr. 

 James Beverly, Admiral Edward Bird, and the cox- 

 swain James Parker, in their celebrated boat-journey 

 towards the North Pole from Spitsbergen in 1827, 

 having advanced a little beyond latitude 82° 45' N. 



From the summit of a mountain 2,000 feet high 

 Aldrich discovered an apparently continuous coast-line 

 extending towards the north-west for a distance of sixty 

 miles to latitude 83° 7' N. with lofty mountains in the 

 interior to the southward. No land was to be seen to 

 the northward for at least eight or ten miles ; misty 

 weather prevented his seeing farther in that direction. 



The following extracts from Lieutenant Aldrich's 

 official journal give a description of his journey : — 

 * # # * # 



1 September 22nd. — At 11 a.m. I left the ship, in 

 command of two dog-sledges, seven dogs in each, two 

 blue-jackets (Ayles and Simmons), and Frederick the 

 Eskimo. I arrived at Snow House Point at 4.20 p.m., 

 having been delayed a great deal by several of the 

 dogs falling down in fits, no less than eight of them 

 being thus attacked, and two or three of them twice 

 or three times over. 



' September 23rd. — Shortly after starting I was 

 obliged to cut one of Simmons's dogs adrift, and I was 

 constantly hampered by fits as yesterday. I now had 

 thirteen dogs left. The second sledge gave way in 



