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GRINNELL LAND; OR, 
On the 26th we were off Cape Innis, and Captain 
Ommanney about ten miles further to the south. Our 
log-hook speaks of two vessels heset in the ice off Cape 
Hotham, which were no doubt his ; but the state of 
the atmosphere was such as to make it impossible to 
recognize any thing at that distance. My meteoro- 
logical record for the day shows this : it was dull and 
heavy, till it was relieved by a fall of snow. 
The journal recently published by Dr. Sutherland 
shows it also. Under the date of August 26th, it says : 
"At one o'clock A.M. the ships were made fast to the 
floe, to take some water from it, and to wait until the 
weather should clear up ;" and " during the day the 
weather was almost perfectly calm, the sky was over- 
cast with a dense misty haze, and toward evening there 
was a great deal of soft snow." — Vol. i., p. 296, 298. 
Captain Ommanney himself, writing on the 10th of 
September, says : " During the day (the 25th of Au- 
gust), we kept along the solid field of ice, extending 
from Cape Innis to Barlow's Inlet, which bounded the 
horizon to the northM^ard, and where no land was vis- 
ible. When six miles east of Barlow's Inlet, the pack- 
ice closed in and stopped my further progress. In this 
position we continued beset in Wellington Channel 
from the 25th ultimo to the 3d instant, strong south- 
easterly winds and thick weather prevailing." The 
question of discovery by Captain Ommanney on the 
26th of August resolves itself, therefore, into this. Could 
he, when objects were not distinguishable at ten miles 
distance, make discoveries at the distance of a hund- 
red? 
As to Mr. Manson, he was on board the Sophia on 
the 25th, and does not appear, from Dr. Sutherland's 
journal, to have left her for some time afterward. On 
