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and the Admiralty appointed Lieutenant Reato take part in 

 the expedition for the purpose of accurately determining 

 the position of land by means of astronomical observa- 

 tions. However, Biscoe found himself obliged to with- 

 draw from the command of the expedition at the last 

 moment, and although it followed his plan, undertaking 

 this time the voyage from east to west, it was already 

 completely surrounded by the ice in the South Shetland 

 Isles, one of the ships was crushed, and the other barely 

 escaped a similar fate ; this was in the southern summer 

 of 1832-3. 



Another seal-hunting captain, Kemp, fared better. 

 In the turn of the year 1833, and in longitude 593-° E., 

 he succeeded in penetrating as far as latitude 66° S., and 

 there saw land, named Kemp Land after him. Un- 

 fortunately, nothing further is known of his discoveries 

 than what may be gathered from the British Admiralty 

 Charts, where his course and the land he sighted are 

 laid down. 



Several years now passed before any fresh discovery 

 was made in South Polar regions, nevertheless this is 

 the place for making mention of the voyages said to have 

 been made by the American, Morrell, whose accounts 

 unfortunately still haunt our charts. Morrell states that 

 on the nth of January, 1823, having visited South 

 Georgia and the Bouvet Isles and left Kerguelen be- 

 hind, he, on the 1st of February, found himself in 

 latitude 64 52' S. and longitude 118° 27' E., in the very 

 place, therefore, where Balleny and Wilkes distinctly 

 saw land ; Morrell, however, makes no mention of it. 

 Now he steered to the west, and suddenly, without any 

 indication of the course pursued and entirely without 

 date, the vessel seems to have attained a latitude of 

 69/ n' S., longitude 48° 15' E., due south consequently 

 of Enderby Land. Here, strange to say, a small 

 number of icebergs was seen, no field-ice, and as a 



