2e52 Recent Worl: in the Pular Regions. 



usual order of promotion and place the topographer above the 

 triangulator. Moreover, the triangulation should be regarded as 

 merely a means for the correction of the sketching, and it should 

 be required only that it be of sufficiently high grade to meet this 

 condition. The minor locations should be sufficiently nu- 

 merous and well distributed to fully control and correct the 

 sketching; and finally the sketching should be as faithful a 

 representation of the topography as is consistent with the neces- 

 sary generalization of the surface features. 



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Polar Regions. — The Societe de Geograpliie of Paris in its Pro- 

 ceedings publishes the following communication from M. Ch. 

 Rabot on the new Danish expedition eiigaged in the exploration 

 of the eastern coast 'of Greenland, under the command of Lieu- 

 tenant Ryder, of the royal Danish navy. The expedition l).as in 

 view the examination of the unknown coast between Franz-Josef 

 fiord, in latitude 73°, and the most northerl}^ point reached by 

 Commander Holm and Lieutenant Garde, about latitude 66°. 

 Lieutenant Ryder left Copenhagen June 7. 1891, in the Nor- 

 wegian whaler Hekla, wdiich had been chartered by the Danish 

 government. The first ice was met on the 20th, in latitude 68° 

 12', longitude 13° 05' west. Unable to pass through the pack to 

 the Greenland shore after several attempts, the ship proceeded 

 northward, and in the vicinity of Jan Mayen made soundings 

 and successful dredgings. Several attempts to reach the coast 

 of Greenland were made from the 75th parallel southward, but 

 without success up to July 2, when the Helia was in latitude 

 71° 31', longitude 6° 30' west.. Since that date there has been no 

 direct news, but on July 26, in latitude 72° 40', longitude 14° 25' 

 west, the English whaler Active saw the Hekla a few miles to the 

 northeast, heading to the south-southwest. On August 2 the 

 Active, in latitude 71° 40', approached within 12 miles of the coast, 

 and on August 20, in 70° 30', was Avithin 7 miles of the main- 

 land. In both instances the intervening sea Avas free of ice. The 

 English captain believes that the Helia made the eastern coast 

 in about 71° 30'. The Helia is provisioned for the winte'r, and 

 there is a prospect of marked success by the Danish officers in 

 their undertaking. 



