GRINNELL LAND. 
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gave us latitude 75° 20' 38" N. We are apparently 
not more than seven miles from the shore. It is still 
of the characteristic transition limestone, very uninvit- 
ing", snow-covered, and destitute ; but we look at it 
longingly. It would be so comforting to have landed 
a small depot of provisions, in case of accident or im- 
paction further north. 
"No snow until afternoon. Thermometer, maxi- 
mum 22°, minimum 19°, mean 20° 35'. Wind gentle, 
and now nearly calm, from southward and eastward 
to southward. 
"About tea-time (21st), the sun sufficiently low to 
give the effects of sunset, we saw distinctly to the 
north by west a series of hill-tops, apparently of the 
same configuration with those around us. The trend 
of the western coast extending northward from the 
point opposite our vessel receded westward, and a va- 
cant space, either of unseen very low land or of water, 
separated it from the Terra Nova, which we see north 
of us. Whether this Grinnell Land, as our captain 
has named it, be a continuation of Cornwallis Island, 
or a cape from a new northern land, or a new direc- 
tion of the eastern coast of North Devon, or a new 
island, I am not prepared to say. We shall probably 
know more of each other before long. 
^'September 22, Sunday. A cloudless morning: no 
snow till afternoon. Our drift during the night has 
been to the northward ; and, except an occasional crack 
or pool, our horizon was one mass of snow-covered 
ice. 
"The beautifully clear sky with which the day 
opened gave us another opportunity of seeing the un- 
visited shores of Upper Wellington Sound. Our lati- 
tude by artificial horizon was 75° 24' 21" N., about sixty 
