xxxiv Preliminary Chajyter. 



Sounds, Wellington Channel, Kellett, Barrow Straits, Franklin Straits, Peel, Sir 

 James Eoss, and the Fiuy and Hecla Straits, Eegent's Inlet, and tlie discovery in 

 1833, by Sir James Ross, of the north magnetic pole. (Judge Daly, pres. of Am. 

 Geog. Soc, in Jolinston's Cyclopedia, 1S7G.) See Circumpolar Pocket Maj) and 



Map Xo. U. 



In a very courteous letter received since the preparation of this 

 Narrative was begun. Admiral Sir F. L McClintock, K N., estimates 

 the ag-gregate amount of moneys expended by England in these North- 

 west Passage explorations at £272,000, and of those expended in the re- 

 lief expeditions, at £f)75,000 ; with the additions made by private parties 

 of £35,000. Of this last sum a large proportion was from Lady Frank- 

 lin's purse. 



The aggregate of moneys expended by American exploring and 

 relief expeditions, chiefly from private subscriptions, exceeds the sum 

 of 8250,000. The amount appropriated by the United States Con- 

 gress for Dr. Kane's Expedition was 8150,000. 



Admiral McClintock further writes that the number of miles 



traversed by sledge expeditions only, over ice or land, is about 43,000. 



In answer to the request that he would express his views in regard 



characteristic. He is represented as informing his oflScei-s and crew that the Northwest Passage 

 lia-s heen discovered. A panel represents Crozier reading the funeral service over Franklin in 1847. 



In 1^75 a beautiful Monument, ordered by Lady Franklin, was inspected before her 

 d« atl), and placed iji tlic same year in Westminster Abbey. It is of CaiTara marble, having iu 

 ba.s relief an ice-bound shiji, and the inscription: 



"O yo frost, aud cold ! O ye ice aud snow, 

 Blt'89 ye the Loi'd ! 



Frillfiwcil by TfUiiysoii's lines:' 



Xot liere: tlie white North has thy bones, and thou 



Ucroic Sailor Soul ! 

 Art pu88in^ on thy happier v(iyaj|;e now 



Toward no Karthly Pole. 



Erected by his widow, wbo, alt<T Icjiig waitings aii<l sending many in search of him, herself de- 

 parted to lind bini in tlie realms of life." 



