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Again, when we turn from the discoveries 

 of FrankHn to those of M'CHntock, as mapped 

 in red colours on the general map, on which 

 is represented the amount of outline laid down 

 by all other Arctic explorers from the days 

 when these modern researches originated with 

 Sir John Barrow, we perceive that, in addition 

 to the discovery of the course followed by the 

 ' Erebus ' and ' Terror,' some most important 

 geographical data have been accumulated by 

 the last expedition of Lady Franklin. 



Thus, M'Clintock has proved, that the strait 

 named by Kenedy in an earlier private expe- 

 dition of Lady Franklin after his companion the 

 brave Lieutenant Bellot, and which has hitherto 

 been regarded only as an impassable frozen 

 channel, or ignored as a channel at all, is a 

 navigable strait, the south shore of which is 

 thus seen to be the northernmost land of the 

 continent of America. 



M'Clintock has also laid down the hitherto 

 unknown coast-line of Boothia, southwards from 

 Bellot Strait to the Magnetic Pole, has deline- 

 ated the whole of King William's Island, and 



of all modem Arctic enterprise, Sir John Barrow, to whom, and 

 to many other eminent persons, from Sir Edward Parry downwards, 

 I have in various Geographical Addresses offered the tribute of my 

 admiration. 



