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THE RECORD. 
Stephenson, Jefferson Temple Baker, George Riley, 
Peter Schubert, George Whipple, John Blake, Thomas 
Hickey, William Godfrey, and Hans Cristian, mem¬ 
bers of the Second Grinnell Expedition in search of 
Sir John Franklin and the missing crews of the Erebus 
and Terror, were forced into this harbor while endea¬ 
voring to bore the ice to the north and east. 
“ They were frozen in on the 8th of September, 
1853, and liberated- 
“During this period the labors of the expedition 
have delineated nine hundred and sixty miles of coast¬ 
line, without developing any traces of the missing ships 
or the slightest information bearing upon their fate. 
The amount of travel to effect this exploration ex¬ 
ceeded two thousand miles, all of which was upon foot 
or by the aid of dogs. 
“Greenland has been traced to its northern face, 
whence it is connected with the farther north of the 
opposite coast by a great glacier. This coast has been 
charted as high as lat. 82° 27'. Smith’s Sound ex¬ 
pands into a capacious bay: it has been surveyed 
throughout its entire extent. From its northern and 
eastern corner, in lat. 80° 10', long. 66°, a channel has 
been discovered and followed until farther progress 
was checked by water free from ice. This channel 
trended nearly due north, and expanded into an appa¬ 
rently open sea, which abounded with birds and bears 
and marine life. 
“ The death of the dogs during the winter threw 
the travel essential to the above discoveries upon the 
