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GRINNELL LAND; OR, 
land excursion from Point Innes on the 27tli of Au- 
gust, and has received the name of Griffin Inlet. The 
small island mentioned hefore was called Murdaugh's 
Island, after the acting master of the Advance. 
" The eastern shore of Wellington Channel appear- 
ed to run parallel with the western ; but it became 
quite low, and, being covered with snow, could not be 
distinguished with certainty, so that its continuity 
with the high land to the north was not ascertained." 
. These discoveries, with the exception of Murdaugh 
Island, present themselves on the English maps in 
new forms and with different names. I do not refer 
to those which were published in the newspapers 
and by the Hydrographic Office in September, 1851; 
though in both of them the name of Prince Albert has 
the place which our commander had inscribed a year 
before Avith that of Mr. Grinnell : the authors of these 
two charts could hardly have been informed of the 
American discoveries. I regret that there is not an 
equally obvious apology for those who have followed 
since. 
Mr. Arrowsmith's map of the " Discoveries in the 
Arctic Seas" bears the date of the 21st of October, 
1851 ; though it was not completed, in fact, for sev- 
eral weeks afterward. This is clear from some of the 
discoveries it records ; particularly those of Dr. E,ae, 
which were first announced to the Admiralty on the 
10th of November.^ The hydrographical map of the 
British Admiralty, with a similar title, is dated in 
April, 1852. Both of these documents reassert the 
name of Albert Land for the large tract of high lands 
seen by us to the north. In the former, Arrowsmith's, 
* See Remarks made at the meeting of the National Institute at Washington, 
in May, 1852, by the President of the Institute, Peter Force, Esq. 
