Preliminary Chapter. xxxiii 



Record, of which a fac simile is here given. It is the only official paper 

 as yet found recording the fate of the Franklin Ex2)edition * 



CHIEF BENEFICIAL, RESULTS. 



The explorations for the discovery of the Northwest Passage, and thoso sent 

 out for the relief of Sir John Franklin or other absent explorers, resulted in iIk 

 discovery of that great region lying within the Arctic Circle between 00- and IMP 

 west longitude up to Cape Parry, 71° 23' west longitude and 77° G' nortli latitude ; 

 or from Davis Strait to Cape Bathurst; embracing Banks, Prince Albert, and 

 Prince Patrick's Lands, Melville Island and Sound, McClintock's ('lianiic], Ba- 

 thurst Island, Victoria, Prince of Wales and King William's Land, Bootliia and 

 Gulf of Boothia, North Somerset, North Devon, Melville Peninsula, Cockburn 

 Island, Grinnell, Ellesmere, and Washington Lands, Lancaster, Eclipse, and Jones 



* lu 1859 McCliintock learned that the ships made the passage to the waters leading into 

 Sinipsou's Strait. Franklin's expedition, therefore, discovered -what he sought, lie had dic<l on 

 board the Erebus June 11, 1847. 



The Eoyal Geographical Society, in awarding in 1860 the Founder's gold medal to Lady 

 Franklin, affirmed that in placing the Erebus and the Terror in the position of lat. 70° 05', long 98^ 

 23', "the Franklin Expedition had firmly established the existence of a Northwest Passage." 

 Lieutenant Gore's party, sent out by Franklin from his ship May 24, 1847, had, in fact, in all proba- 

 bility, reported to him before his death that the waters of the North and the South were united 

 by a passage between his ships and Dease and Simpson's Strait. The discovery was unknown 

 until the return of the Fox, six years after the award to Sir E. McClure and his officers, as tho 

 first to cross from the Pacific to tho Atlantic. 



A Monument costing £2,000, erected in 1860 in Waterloo Place, bears the inscription : 



FRANKLIN. 



TO THE GREAT NAVIGATOK 



AND HIS BRAVE COMPANIONS 



WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES 



COMPLETING THE DISCOVERY OF 



THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. 



A. D. 1&47-48. 



ERECTED IJY THE UNANIMOUS VOTE 



OF PARLIAMENT. 



This statue, voted by the nation, was unveiled in the presence of the First Lord of the 



Admiralty, Sir J. Pakington, and of the distinguished Arctic explorers and geographers, Colliu- 



8in, Ommaney, Sabine, Murchison, Osborn, and Rawlinson, Mr. John Barrow, Mr. Arrowsmith, 



and of others, with Lady Franklin. She declared the likeness of her husband excellent and 



S. Ex. 27 III 



