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REMARK- on FRANKLIN'S ARCTIC 
EXPEDITION. 
Mr. Dawson— 
| Sir, Your paper of the 18th irist.j 
I contains r brief account of Captain 
i Franklin’s Arctic overland Expedi¬ 
tion, relative to which I shall make 
a few remarks. It appears, that Cap- 
i tain Franklin did not succeed in gain¬ 
ing a higher latitude than 68 deg. 20 
minutes. According to my map, he 
\va?s not on:y beyond the apparent 
verge, when at the most Western 
bounds of his journey, but for a con¬ 
siderable time before. He probably ; 
passed the apparent verge at a still j 
,ower parallel than 68 degrees. Cap-j 
tain Parry, according to the same 
map, crossed the apparent verge (in 
1820) considerably nearer the high 
side of the opening ; and where he 
crossed it, (the needle apparently 
settling east and west, the north end 
towards the west,) he attained a high¬ 
er parallel than that at which Frank¬ 
lin crossed it, uv about 8 degrees : 
and captain Ross when a little short 
of the apparent verge, at the head 
of Baffin’s Bay obtained a still high¬ 
er latitude, because he was nearer 
the high side of the opening. The 
fishermen, who frequent Spitsber¬ 
gen, which is close upon the high 
side, sail almost every year to the 
eightieth degree. These facts cor¬ 
roborate my theory, and conform 
with my map, as any one may see, 
who will be at the trouble to test 
, them with it. 
When Franklin was on the utmost 
meridian attained by Parry, though) 
about S (inner) degrees more south, 
he was, according to my principles, 
on the oblique part of one of the 
meridians, which arise from the in¬ 
ner equator, and had he then travel¬ 
led either a SW. course—the direc- 
