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NOTES. 
indicated tho resistance to the passage of the ice-stream. I think I have men¬ 
tioned a small island near the cache that was already partially buried by the 
advance of the glacier and the discharged fragments at its base. 
Note 43, p. 225. 
Our surveys give four points for the determination of the trend of this interior 
mer de glace: —1. Up the fiord of Marshall Bay; 2. In tho interior, about lat. 
78° 82', as observed by Dr. Ilayes; 8. South of Force Bay; 4. Near Etah. 
These give tho axis of the stream nearly duo north and south. 
Note 44, p. 226. 
Australia, between Bass and Torres Straits, measures about sixteen hun¬ 
dred miles. 
Note 45, p. 227. 
Looking upon the glaciers of Greenland as canals of exudation, for the most 
part at right angles to tho general axis of the interior ico, we have a system 
of discharge, both on the east and west coasts, coincident in direction with the 
fiords, which themselves bear a fixed relation to the coast-line. This coast¬ 
line, however, having now been traced to its northern face, analogy would sus¬ 
tain the view of the central mer de glace finding its exit into an unknown Polar 
space. 
I have spoken of Humboldt Glacier as connecting tho two continents of 
America and Greenland. The expression requires explanation:— 
All of Arctic America north of Dolphin and Union Straits is broken up into 
large insular masses, and may bo considered as a vast archipelago. While, 
therefore, a liberal definition would assign these land-masses to the American 
continent, Grinnoll Land cannot strictly be regarded as part of the continent 
of America. Washington Lund seems, in physical characters and position, to 
be a sort of middle ground, which, according to the different views of geo¬ 
graphers, may be assigned indifferently to either of the two great divisions. 
From tho American land-masses it is separated by a channel of but thirty-five 
miles in width ; and, at this point, Greenland, losing its peninsular character 
partakes in general character with the land-masses of the West. A water- 
channel not wider than Lancaster Sound or Murchison’s, which have heretofore 
not been regarded as breaking a geographical continuity, is all that intervenes. 
Note 46, p. 232. 
Extract from Report of I. I. Ilayes , M.D ., Surgeon to Expedition. 
“You were carried to the brig nearly insensible by the more able men of the 
party, and so swollen from scurvy as to be hardly recognisable. I believe that 
a few hours’ moro exposure would have terminated your life, and at the time 
regarded your ultimate recovery as nearly hopeless.” 
