424 Correspondence of J. Nickles. 
informed that her Majesty’s ships Erebus and Terror were aban- 
doned on the 22d of April, 1848, in the ice, five leagues to the 
N.N.W., and that the survivors—in all amounting to one 
hundred and five souls, under the command of Captain Crozier 
—were proceeding to the Great Fish River. Sir John Franklin 
had died on the 11th of June, 1847. 
‘Many deeply interesting relics of our lost countrymen have 
been picked up on the western shore of King William’s Island, 
and others obtained from the Esquimaux, by whom we were in- 
formed that, subsequent to their abandonment, one ship was 
crushed and sunk by the ice, and the other forced on shore, 
where she has since been, affording them an almost inexhausti- 
ble mine of wealth. 
“Being unable to penetrate beyond Bellot Strait, the Fox 
wintered in Brentford Bay and the search, including the estuary 
of the Great Fish River and the discovery of eight hundred 
miles of coast line, by which we have united the explorations of 
the former searching expeditions to the north and west of our 
position with those of James Ross, Dease and Simpson, and Rae 
to the south, has been performed by sledge journeys this spring, 
conducted by Lieutenant Hobson, R.N., Captain Allen Young 
myself. i 
“As a somewhat detailed report of our proceedings will 
doubtless be interesting to their lordships, it is herewith enclosed, 
together with a chart of our discoveries and explorations, and at 
the earliest opportunity I will present myself at the Admiralty 
to afford further information, and lay before their lordships the 
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record found at Port Victor 
Yale College Library, Oct., 1859. 
| Art. XLV.—Correspondence of Prof. Jerome Nickles, dated 
Nancy, August 20th, 1859. 
serew to the purposes of a blowing machine. This apparatus is still 
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