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ing for us .... , and, as soon as day broke, we bad tbe gratification of learn- 

 ing tbat sbe bad not suffered any serious damage." 



On December 1 7 Sir James Ross sailed from tbe Falkland Islands, witb tbe 

 intention of following tbe track of Weddell, as, from tbe account of tbat daring 

 navigator, be bad every reason to exjject to find a clear sea, wbicb would enable 

 bim considerably to extend tbe limits of geograpbical knowledge towards tbe 

 pole. He was disappointed, for tbougb be discovered some new land (63°- 

 64° 30'S. lat., 55°-57°W. long.) to tbe soutb of D'Urville's Terre Louis Pbi- 

 l.ippe, yet tbe pack-ice so blocked bis progress tbat tbe fartbest point be could 

 attain was in lat. 71° 30' S., long. 14° 51' W. On Marcb 1 be recrossed tbe An- 

 tarctic Circle, and on tbe 28tb of tbe same montb dropped bis ancbors at tbe 

 Cape. Tbus ended tbis most remai'kable voyage, so bonorabler to all engaged 

 in it, for, as Sir John Richardson justly remarks, " the perseverance, daring, 

 and coolness of tbe commanding ofiBcer, of tbe other oflacers, and of the crews 

 of the ' Erebus ' and ' Terror,' was never surpassed, and have been rarely, if ever, 

 equalled by seamen of any nation." 



Since then tbe " Pagoda," which had been sent out by tbe Admiralty for the 

 purpose of observing magnetic phenomena in a quarter of the Antarctic Seas 

 that bad not been visited by Sir James Ross, attained the 73d parallel, but no 

 more recent expedition has been fitted out to prosecute his discoveries, and no 

 man after him has seen Mount Erebus vomiting forth its toi-rents of flame, or 

 traced the stupendous barrier which stopped his progress to tbe pole. 



