CHAPTER XXV. 
I HAVE copied literally from my journal the observ- 
ations which I noted during our northward drift, he- 
cause some of them hear on a question, unhappily 
made one of controversy, as to the extent and charac- 
ter of the discoveries which were due to the American 
squadron. 
It has been seen that on the 19th of September, 
1850, we were in latitude 75° 20' 11" N., and proba- 
bly some seven miles from the western shore of Wel- 
lington Sound. At this time I observed, but not with 
certainty, a large cape, several minor headlands, and 
an inlet or harbor, in the direction of Cornwallis Isl- 
and. These may, perhaps, have been the Cape De Ha- 
ven, Point Decision, and Helen Haven or Harbor, dis- 
covered and named by Captain Penny in May of the 
following year. 
On the 21st, our latitude was 75° 20' 38". The sky 
being clear, and the position of the sun favorable, I saw 
distinctly, bearing north by west, a series of hill-tops, 
not mountains, apparently of the same configuration 
with those around us, and separated from Cornwallis 
Island by a strip of low beach or by water. I have 
sometimes thought that this was the Baillie Hamilton 
Island, also discovered by Captain Penny in 1851, 
On the 22d, our latitude was 75° 24' 21". I now 
saw land to the north and west ; its horizon that of 
rolling ground, without bluffs, and terminating abrupt- 
ly at its northern end. Still further on to the north 
came a strip without visible land, and then land again, 
