56 Geographical Notices. 
From Mr. Hall’s letter to Mr. Grinnell we present a few extracts. 
Holsteinberg, July 17, 1860. 
“Our voyage thus far has been attended with calms, ee: and head winds, 
= Prolonging it to 39 days. The usual time may be set down at from 
We arrived here in Holsteinberg arbor & on the morning of 
j ay ts "The Rescue, of your first re in search of Sir John Frank- 
lin, in 1850, arrived at midnight of July 11. The George Henry and 
Rescue parted company the third night out, during a heavy wind; but 
Holsteinberg being the rendezvous, each vessel made its course direct here. 
In this connection, I must speak to you of the codperation I receive 
from Capt. Buddington, who has the sitiguaaa’ of neg the George Henry 
and Rescue. could have had the choice of 10,000 men, excellent 
navigators in the waters of the north, and withal good and true men, I 
d not have selected a better one than Capt. Sydney J. Buddington. 
The house of Messrs. Williams and Haven, whose generosity in behalf of 
my voyage to the north should ever be remembered, know well that 
i board the George qe, and in acta do they seem 
more pinaresind than in examining the records of the first and second 
Grinnell Expeditions of 1850~51, and 1858-5455, as written a 
illustrated by the lamented poo Happily, T had these volumes with me. _ 
e Horeenor was also interested in the work of Captain (now Sir) F. L. 
were 
much amazed with the pre nes of Gov. Elberg, in ‘reading before the - 
whole co mpany present McClintock’s account of his gift of some coals to 
“the priest’s,wife, who was ne with cold.” “The priest’s wife,” Mrs. 
Kier, be eg of the party and seemed to enjoy the joke quite as well 
as any of 
I must ‘ake the only copy of McClintock I have with me, as there are _ 
many statements in it that I wish to investigate personally, when on King _ 
William’s Land next ral 
I have visited various mountains of Greenland during our stay here, — 
and know of no part of the world where there is better st geyicne for — 
the geologist to investigate the stratification of the earth’s crust than here _ 
in the north. By the by, Gov. a has presented me with anee . 
speriment of fossil fish, from North Strom Fiord, the only place where — 
they can be obtained. ‘Mr. MoClatack says nye Oey Sok } interesting as being — 
of unknown geological date.* 
Before me, on the table in my cabin, where I am writing this, is a 
beautiful bouquet of Arctic flowers, in great re ie me by pone : 
young Esquimaux ladies of i eins I am asto 
fuseness of Nature’s productions her 
* See this Journ. [2], xxi, 313-338 and xxvi, 119, for age of Arctic cline sed oe ; 
