48 VOYAGE TO THE POLAR SEA. JUNE 



other hand, as only light ice was met with on the 

 northern shores of the Parry Islands by Sir George 

 v Eichards, Sherard Osborn, and Sir Edward Belcher, 

 * I conclude that Grinnell Land does not turn to the 

 southward at Aldrich's Farthest, but rather extends 

 more or less continuously for the whole distance to 

 Ireland's Eye, protecting the Parry Islands from the 

 Polar ice ; whether its north-western coast-line bor- 

 dering the Polar Sea runs nearly direct or not can 

 only be conjectured. 



Our knowledge regarding Jones Sound is not great ; 

 but we know that the flow of warm water from the 

 southward up Baffin's Bay is to be met with close 

 outside its entrance, and that the tidal currents inside 

 are strong. Further, Sir Edward Inglefield met with 

 Polar ice when navigating inside the sound in 1852. 

 It is therefore probable that Jones Sound affords the 

 most direct route leading from Baffin's Bay in a north- 

 westerly direction to the Polar Sea, and that it separates 

 Aldrich's Farthest from the land which protects the 

 Parry Islands. 



The results of the two sledge journeys of Markham 

 and Aldrich, one towards the north over the heavy 

 pack, and the other following the coast-line towards 

 the westward, considered with the fact that the birds 

 do not migrate farther towards the north than the 

 neighbourhood of Cape Joseph Henry, lead me to con- 

 elude that no land exists for a distance of at least 

 two hundred miles to the northward. 



The following lines were composed by Mr. Pullen 

 after the return of the travellers : 



