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M'Clintock's Narrative of Arctic Discoveries, 

 after a careful examination of the entire evidence 

 on the subject, is distinctly of the same opinion ; 

 while the recent researches of ..Professor Heer put 

 it beyond doubt that the drift theory must be 

 abandoned. 



" But in reality we are not left to theorise on the 

 subject, for we have a well authenticated case of 

 one of those trees being got by Captain Belcher 

 standing erect in the position in which it grew. It 

 was found immediately to the northward of the 

 narrow strait opening into Wellington Sound, in 

 latitude 75 32' N., longitude 92 W., and about a 

 mile and a half inland. The tree was dug up out 

 of the frozen ground, and along with it a portion 

 of the soil which was immediately in contact with 

 the roots. The whole was packed in canvas and 

 brought to England. Near to the spot several 

 knolls of peat mosses about nine inches in depth 

 were found, containing the bones of the lemming 

 in great numbers. The tree in question was 

 examined by Sir William Hooker, who gave 

 the following report concerning it, which bears 



