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day it blew a strong gale from the eastward. I regretted this much, 
as it was my intention to make full experiments on the deep tempera¬ 
ture and the velocity of the current in the Stream; but the roughness 
of the sea and violence of the wind prevented it. The close proximity 
to our port also, and the increasing impatience of all on board to reach 
their homes, forbade all unnecessary delay. The experiments we did 
make gave a difference of three degrees of temperature, between the 
surface and one hundred fathoms depth. The highest temperature of 
the surface experienced while crossing the Stream was 79°; when we 
entered, it was 77°. We were seven hours in crossing it, and found, 
as in our first passage, that the inner edge was the warmest. During 
the next half hour after leaving the Gulf Stream, the surface tempera¬ 
ture fell twelve degrees, and so continued until we got on soundings, 
when it rose again some three or four degrees. The morning of the 
9th was foggy, which rather tried our patience, but by firing guns we 
attracted the attention of the pilot-boats, and on the fog clearing away 
a little, discovered one close to us. A pilot now boarded and took 
charge of the ship, and at noon on the 10th of June, 1842, anchored us 
off Sandy Hook, where a steamer came alongside soon afterwards, 
and took us in tow. After stopping half an hour at the quarantine 
ground, to receive the visit of the health officer, we held our course 
towards the city of New York. 
Before I left the Vincennes off the Battery, the crew were called to 
muster, when I expressed to them my thanks for the manner in which 
they had conducted themselves during the cruise, and stated the confi¬ 
dent belief entertained by me, that they would receive from the govern¬ 
ment such rewards as the successful performance of the cruise, and 
their long and perilous services, entitled them to. A national salute 
was then fired, and my pennant hauled down; the command of the 
ship being given to Captain Hudson, who proceeded with her to the 
navy-yard. As soon as she was safely moored, all the men who could 
be spared were allowed to go on shore, with their bags and hammocks. 
A happier set of fellows than they were is not often to be met with; 
being relieved from their long confinement on shipboard, and the severe 
discipline of a man-of-war. 
Those who have perused this full narrative of the events of the 
Expedition, I confidently believe, will absolve me from all the charges 
so industriously circulated against me, relative to the manner in which 
I had conducted the Expedition; at the same time they will see what 
meed of honour or reward is justly due to the officers and crews who 
faithfully served out the cruise. All of the former, and many of the 
