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to have been picked up near the shores of Newman’s Bay and 
Polaris Bay. On the shores of the latter bay in lat. 81° 38’ N. 
Capt. Hall ‘found that the country abounds with live seals, 
game, geese, ducks, musk cattle, rabbits, wolves, foxes, bears, 
partridges, lemmings, etc., etc. 
The geographical results of the Polaris expedition, so far as 
they can now be ascertained from the testimony of Messrs. Tyson, 
Myers and their comrades, may be summed up briefly as follows. 
The open Polar sea laid down by Kane and Hayes is found to be 
in reality a sound forming an expansion of Kennedy channel to 
the northward and broken by Lady Franklin Bay on the west, 
and on the east by a large inlet twenty miles wide at the opening 
and certainly extending far inland. Its size was not ascertained, 
and Mr. Myer thinks it may be in fact a strait extending till it 
communicates with the Francis Joseph sound of the Germania and 
Hansa expedition, and with it defining the northern limits of 
Greenland. This inlet was called the southern fiord. North of it 
is the indentation of the shore called Polaris Bay by Captain Hall, 
where the Polaris wintered in lat. 81° 38’ north. The northern 
point of this bay was named Cape Tupton. Its southern point is 
yet without a name. From Cape T upton the land. trends to» 
the northeast and from the eastern shore of a new channel from 
twenty-five to thirty miles wide opening out of the sound before 
mentioned. The trend.of land continues to Repulse Harbor in 
lat. 82° 9’ north, the highest northern position reached by land dur- 
ing this expedition. From an elevation of 17 00 feet at Repulse 
Harbor, on the east coast of Robeson’s Straits, the land continues 
northeast to the end of these straits, and thence east and southeast 
till lost in the distance, its vanishing point bearing south of east 
from the place of observation. No land was visible to the north- 
east, but land was seen on the west coast, extending north as far 
as the eye could reach, and apparently terminating in a headland 
84° north. Mr. Myer also stated that directly to the north he ob- 
served, on a bright day, from the elevation mentioned, a line 
of light, apparently circular in form, which was thought by other 
observers to be land, but which he supposed to indicate open 
water. Besides ascertaining accurately the condition and extent 
of what was before supposed to be an open polar sea, discov- 
ering the southern fiord to the southeast, and Roberts’s Straits to 
_ the north, with another wide expanse of water beyond it and ex- 
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