258 SCIENTIFIC APPARATUS. 



while Allen Young discovered the south side of Prince of Wales 



Land, connecting the discoveries made by officers of Captain 



A Austin's expedition, those of Sherard Osborn on the west 



30. Arrow- 



tnose of Browne on the east. Allen Young also 

 ^dTsco 1 - established the existence of a channel leading to Barrow 

 CR.G S .s!) 86 ' Strait, which is now called Peel Strait. 

 chart ^Ifth? 2 7* ^ ie searcm ' n g expeditions thus added a vast ex- 

 and tent * coast-line to the map of the Arctic regions to 

 tne north of America, which will be seen by a com- 

 parison of the chart of 1848 with that that is now issued 

 by the Admiralty, of this area. 



28. In 1853 Dr. Kane undertook to lead an American expedi- 

 tion up Smith Sound in the northern extremity of Baffin's Bay, in 

 the little brig Advance, of 120 tons, with a crew of seventeen men. 

 The means were altogether inadequate for the object in vie\v. 

 Dr. Kane was stopped by the ice only seventeen miles north of 

 the position reached by Captain Inglefield in Smith Sound, and 

 wintered at Van Rensselaer Harbour in 78 37' N. In the 

 spring of 1854 Dr. Kane's steward, named Morton, with an 

 33 Admi- Eskimo and dogs, made a journey to the northward 

 ofKane'* rt along the eastern shore of the strait, to Cape Con- 

 stitution, in about 80 56' N. A second winter was 



34. Kane's passed in great misery, and, abandoning the vessel, 



original MS. , , . 



chart of his Dr. Kane and his men retreated to the Danish 



discoveries. . . 



(R.G.s.) settlements in Greenland, during the summer of 



1855- 



29. Five years afterwards, another American expedition started 

 for Smith Sound, under Dr. Hayes, who had served in Kane's 

 expedition. His schooner, the United States , of 133 tons, win- 

 tered at Port Foulke, in 78 17' N.,- a few miles within the 

 entrance of Smith Sound ; and in the spring of 1861, Dr. Hayes 

 made a sledge journey up the west coast to 81 35' N. 



30. In the direction of Behring Strait the discovery of land by 

 Captain Kellett was supplemented by Captain Long, in com- 



