54 Geographical Notices. 
Trusting our lives and fortunes to the keeping of Him who —— is 
omnipotent, we sever in afew hours our connection with the 
= and enter upon our work, looking hopefully to the sana: 
the best wishes for the prosperity of you and yours, and with 
il sincere tha: or the liberality which you and your associates 
have displayed in our outfit and preparation, I beg you to believe me, 
With great regard your obedient servant, 
Isaac I, Havzs. 
To Peg singe i Esq., of New York; oor Baker, Jr., Esq., of Boston; Prof. 
, of Washington; Wm. ‘Parker Foulke, Esq., of Philadelphia, and 
pce — Scaibjetad to the Bepeition. 
p ree of Bosto many interesti ing details ig eset the early 
part of the voyage, oa the limits of this Journal will not 
allow us to reprint. expedition sailed from eee Au- 
gust t L4th, for Tontinsake where it had arrived on the 23d of that 
month. [t was here that Dr. Longshaw parted from the com- 
pany Dr. tages found a small village of Esquimaux at Tes- 
sinsak (the home of his interpreter,) some of whom were em- 
= to make up into clothing the furs purchased at Uper- 
navi 
2. Hall’s Search for the Relics of Franklin’s Bagi? —A 
short time previous to the departure of Dr. r. . B, 
of Cincinnati, conceived the project of Miia oi for fur- 
ther remains of the Franklin expedition. About the first o: 
June, 1860, he set out from New London, in a whaling vessel 
named the “ Geor rge Henry” belonging to Messrs. Williams & 
Haven of that port. A letter just received from him dated 
at Holsteinberg, Greenland, July 17th, was communicated to the 
American > tere Society by Mr. Grinnell, at the meet- 
In respect to the plans and outfit of 
“New London, Nov. 20, 1860. 
* * * Mr. C. F. Hall is a printer who has resided at Ci 
nati. He has had no experience whatever as an Arctic ca 
but has always felt interested in northern voyages of discovery 
and has pernonletlys turned his attention to the various expe- 
' ditions sent out i rch of Sir John Franklin. On the return 
of M’Clintock’s ey he conceived the idea of fitting a 
