CONCLUSIONS. 
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old water channel had served as the wash-hon.se stream 
for the crews of the lost squadron. The tubs, such as 
Jack makes by sawing in half the beef barrels, al- 
though no longer fed by the melted snows, remained 
as the washers had left them five years ago. The lit- 
tle garden, too : I did not see it ; but Lieutenant Osborn 
describes it as still showing the mosses and anemones 
that were transplanted by its framers. A garden im- 
plies a purpose either to remain or to return ; he who 
makes it is looking to the future. The same officer 
found a pair of Cashmere gloves, carefully “laid out to 
dry, with two small stones upon the palms to keep 
them from blowing away.” It would be wrong to 
measure the value of these gloves by the price they 
could be bought for in Bond Street or Broadway. The 
Arctic traveler they belonged to intended to come back 
for them, and did not probably forget them in his 
hurry. 
The facts I have mentioned, almost all of them, have 
been so ably analyzed already, that I might be ex- 
cused from venturing any deductions of my own. But 
it was impossible to review the circumstances as we 
stood upon the ground without forming an opinion ; 
and such as mine was, it is perhaps best that I should 
express it here. 
In the first place, it is plain that Sir John Franklin’s 
consort, the Terror, wintered in 1845-6 at or near the 
promontory of Beechy ; that at least part of her crew 
remained on board of her ; and that some of the crew 
of the flag-ship, the Erebus, if not the ship herself, were 
also there. It is also plain that a part of one or both 
these crews were occupied during a portion of the win- 
ter in the various pursuits of an organized squadron, 
at an encampment on the isthmus I have described, 
