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of which the capes and indentations sighted by him 
are too high in latitude. 
Cape Frederick VII., his highest northern point, 
is placed in lat. 79° 30', while no land—the glacier 
not being considered as such—is found on that coast 
beyond 79° 13'. The same cape as laid down in 
the Admiralty Chart of 1852 is about eighty miles 
from the farthest position reached by Captain Ingle- 
field. To see land upon the horizon at this distance, 
even from a mast-head eighty feet high, would require 
it to be a mountain whose altitude exceeded three 
thousand five hundred feet. An island similar in posi¬ 
tion to that designated by Captain Inglefield as Louis 
Napoleon does not exist. The land sighted in that 
direction may have been the top of a high mountain 
on the north side of Franklin Pierce Bay, though this 
supposition requires us to assume an error in the bear¬ 
ing ; for, as given in the chart, no land could be within 
the range of sight. In deference to Captain Inglefield, 
I have continued for this promontory the name which 
he had impressed upon it as an island. 
Toward night the wind freshened from the north¬ 
ward, and we passed beyond the protection of the 
straits into the open seaway. My journal gives no 
picture of the life we now entered on. The oldest 
sailor, who treads the deck of his ship with the familiar 
confidence of a man at home, has a distrust of open- 
boat navigation which a landsman hardly shares. The 
feeling grew upon us as Ave lost the land. McGary 
