Aug. 1858. AN ARCTIC MONUMENT. 173 



pleted yesterday, and the ship brought over 

 and anchored off the house in Erebus and Terror 

 Bay. A small proportion of provisions and 

 winter clothing has been embarked to complete 

 our deficiencies ; the ice has been scraped out of 

 the house and its roof thoroughly repaired, a 

 record deposited, and door securely closed. 



I found lying at Godhavn a marble tablet 

 which had been sent out by Lady Franklin, in 

 the American expedition of 1855 under Captain 

 Hartstein, for the purpose of being erected at 

 Beechey Island. Circumstances prevented the 

 Americans executing this kindly service, and it 

 fell to my lot to convey it to the site originally 

 intended. The tablet was constructed in New 

 York under the direction of Mr. Grinnell at the 

 request of Lady Franklin, in order that the 

 only opportunity which then offered of sending 

 it to the Arctic regions might not be lost. I 

 placed the monument upon the raised flagged 

 square in the centre of which stands the ceno- 

 taph recording the names of those who perished 

 in the Government expedition under Sir Ed- 

 ward Belcher. Here also is placed a small 

 tablet to the memory of Lieutenant Bellot. I 

 could not have selected for Lady Franklin's me- 

 morial a more appropriate or conspicuous site. 

 The inscription runs as follows : — 



