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lished Wrangel Land to be an island, steamed one hundred and twenty odd miks 

 north and northwest in search of further land, but failed to find any Lieutenant 

 Berry ascended a mountain on Wrangel Island, and from the top saw sea all 

 around it. The season had been most favorable for exploration on account of its 

 openness, notwithstanding stormy weather. Captain Owen said that from his 

 observations he would not be at all surprised to hear of the Jeannette coming 

 home by way of Greenland. The Rodgers intends to send out a sledge party 

 from the winter quarters to explore the coast of Siberia. She expects to leave 

 winter quarters next June, and go as far north as possible. 



Lieutenant Berry, in a letter to the Secretary of the Navy, dated September 

 27th, writes that he crossed and recrossed the 178th meridian in 73° north, and 

 with the horizon throughout and the sky to the north clear. He did not sight 

 the land reported by the captain of the whaling bark, as situated in 178° west 

 longitude and extending as far north of 73° north latitude as the eye could reach, 

 and the Lieutenant adds : "I have found the north ice of such a nature that it 

 would not be possible to pass its outer edge, consisting in places of heavy packs, 

 and in others of unbroken fields miles in extent. I propose to proceed from here 

 to the coast of Siberia and follow it to the westward, looking there for tidings of 

 the missing Jeannette, and for a suitable harbor to winter in, and from which to 

 send out sledge parties, and be in position to succor any one who may reach that 

 coast. Falling to find a suitable harbor, I will have a party with dogs, sledges 

 and provisions for one year to make a search, and will winter the vessel in St. 

 Lawrence Bay, and send parties from there also. In the spring I will proceed 

 to Plover Bay, fill up with coal and continue the search. Since writing, the 

 land has proven to be an island of small extent, with no other land near it. I 

 deem it unwise to winter there as recommended by the Jeannette relief board, 

 under the false supposition that it extended far to the northward." While ex- 

 ploring Wrangel Island he found a cairn formed by Captain Hooper, of the 

 United States steamer Corwin. 



The Stock Reporter publishes extracts from a letter from an officer of the 

 Arctic relief steamer Rodgers, dated October i6th at St. Lawrence Bay, where 

 the ship arrived the day before. The sledge party was landed on the Siberian 

 coast, about fifty miles from East Cape, with one year's provisions, with orders 

 to sledge the coast to the east and west as soon as the ground was covered with 

 snow. The Rodgers reached latitude 73° 44' north. No land was visible to the 

 northward, but to the southward the flight of ducks showed that there must be 

 land in that direction. 



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A remarkable echo was noticed between two mountains at Plover Bay ; anoth- 

 er, noticed by our sledge party in the cliff at Cape Onmann, Siberia, gives back 

 more than a dozen echoes ; and Baron Wrangel relates that a pistol fired near the 



