APPENDIX II. 
Copies OF NOTES WRITTEN BY LIEUTENANT ALEXANDER J. 
SMITH, R.N., ON BOARD H.M.S. ÉREBUS, ОМ AN OLD CHART 
NOW IN THE POSSESSION OF MR. C. E. BoRCHGREVINK. 
“А bottle thrown from H.M.S. Zrebws in lat. 53° 59 5., and 
long. 60° 47' №. at 8 EM. 4th April, 1842. The same was 
picked up on Cape Liptrap, Port Phillip coast, about the middle of 
September, 1845." 
“Thermometer left at Deception Island by Capt. Forster in 
1829 was found by William H. Smiley, master of a sealer, in 
February, 1842, and carefully noted its minimum temperature, which 
was 5° below zero; from Wilkes viz. . . . ." 
.. “H.M. Ships Ærcebus and Terror attained the highest latitude ever 
reached, the 28th January, 1841, viz., 78? 12' S.; all progress to 
the south stopped by a perpendicular barrier of ice 180 ft. high, 
along which the ships ran 3oo miles east by north. High mountains 
to the south and south-west." 
“U.S. ship Leacock saw the first iceberg in lat. 611° S. 
and long. 161° 5' E., 13th January, 1840; her last was in 55°, 
25th January.” 
* Vincennes first berg, lat. 61° 8' S., and long. 162° 32’ E.; last 
one 27th February, 51° S." 
“roth January, 1840. Vincennes and Porpoise in company saw 
first berg in lat. 61? 8' and long. 162? 32' E. On the rst March the 
Porpoise saw the last berg, lat. 55^, and long. 140? E. The American 
squadron under Wilkes reached their furthest lat. 65^, the end of 
January, 1840.” 
