THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 589 



Fiord. From the centre of the fiord, in lat. 80 30', long. 78" 

 30', Lieut. Lockwood saw the northern shore termination, some 

 twenty miles west, the southern shore extending some fifty miles, 

 with Cape Lockwood some seventy miles distant apparently a 

 separate land from Grinnell Land. Have named the new land 

 Arthur Land. Lieut. Lockwood followed, going and returning, 

 on an ice cape averaging about one hundred and fifty feet perpen- 

 dicular face. It follows that the Grinnell Land interior is ice- 

 capped, with a belt of country some sixty miles wide between the 

 northern and southern ice-capes. 



** In March, 1884, Sergeant Long, while hunting from the 

 northwest side of Mount Carey to Hayes Sound, saw on the 

 northern coast three capes westward of the furthest seen by 

 Nares in 1876. The sound extends some twenty miles further 

 west than is shown by the English chart, but is possibly shut in 

 by land which showed up across the western end. 



" The two years' station duties, observations, all explorations, 

 and the retreat to Cape Sabine, were accomplished without loss 

 of life, disease, serious accident, or even severe frost-bites. No 

 scurvy was experienced at Conger, and but one death occurred 

 from it last winter." 



A WONDERFUL SIGHT. 



THIS dispatch merely outlines the discoveries made, the im- 

 portance of which can only be estimated when a fuller description 

 is given. The altitude attained by Lockwood and Brainerd is 

 four miles further north than any other explorer ever reached. 

 This remote point was the summit of Lockwood Island, which is 

 2,000 feet above the sea, affording a wonderful and awe-inspiring 

 view. The awful panorama of the Arctic which their elevation 

 spread out before them, made a profound impression upon the 

 exploiters. The exultation natural to the achievement which they 

 had accomplished was tempered by the reflections inspired by the 

 sublime desolation of that stern and silent coast and the menace 

 of its unbroken solitude. Beyond to the eastward was the inter- 

 minable defiance of the unexplored coast s-black, cold, and re- 

 pellant. Below them lay the Arctic Ocean , buried beneath frozen 



