53 The recent German Arctic Expeditions. 
Linge von Greenwich tiber 78° N. Breite verfolgt. Grdste Breite 
79° N. Br. auf 43° Oestl. Linge, hier giinstigste Kiszustiinde gegen 
Nord wahrscheinliche Verbindung mit Polynia gegen Ost, wahr- 
scheinlich giinstigster Nordpolweg.” 
ast part of the telegram is unintelligible, but I have rea- 
at the South pole. In my chart (published J une, 1870), in regard 
Bessel, made in the Rosenthal steamship “ Albert,” of 1869, mark- 
ed the Gulf Stream between 75° and 76° N. lat., which there* 
sten Kiszustinde gegen Nord der wahrscheinlichen Verbindung 
ore der Polynia gegen Ost, den wahrscheinlich giinstigsten Nord- 
polweg.’ 
T have almost ready a very interesting nets fe Chart, which will 
ung 
2.—Letter of Lieutenant Julius Payer, of the recent German — 
Expedition. | 
This expedition has achieved a result for the exploration of the ] 
sea between Spitzbergen and Nova Zembla surpassing alle 
ations, and from which a greater undertaking will follow next — 
* Such a temperature as has never been observed in the Northern or SoutherD 
hemisphere. 
t Geographische Mittheilungen, 1870, Tafel, 12. 
i in sean 
Bireee 
a ; 
be published in the next volume of the “Geographische Mittheil- — 
en, s 
