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with mountain tops distant and "rising above the 
clouds." This last was the land which received from 
Captain De Haven the name of Mr. Grrinnell. 
Captain De Haven's official report, made on the 4th 
of October, 1851, immediately after our return to the 
United States, speaks of a small, low island, discovered 
about seven miles to the north-northwest on the 2 2d 
of September, 1850. "A channel," he says, " of three 
or four miles in width separated it from Cornwallis 
Island. This latter island, trending northwest from 
our position, terminated abruptly in an elevated cape, 
to which I have given the name of Manning, after a 
warm personal friend and ardent supporter of the ex- 
pedition. Between Cornwallis Island and some dis- 
tant high land visible in the north, appeared a wide 
channel leading to the westward. A dark, misty-look- 
ing cloud which hung over it (technically termed frost- 
smoke) was indicative of much open water in that di- 
rection. ^ ^ # To the channel, which appeared 
to lead into the open sea, over which the cloud of 
'frost-smoke' hung as a sign, I have given the name 
of Maury, after the distinguished gentleman at the 
head of our National Observatory, whose theory with 
regard to an open sea to the north is likely to be real- 
ized through this channel. To the large mass of land 
visible between northwest to north-northeast, I gave 
the name of Grrinnell, in honor of the head and heart 
of the man in whose philanthropic mind originated 
the idea of this expedition, and to whose munificence 
it owes its existence. 
"To a remarkable peak bearing N.N.E. from us, dis- 
tant about forty miles, was given the name of Mount 
Franklin. An inlet or harbor immediately to the north 
of Cape Bowden was discovered by Mr. Griffin in his 
