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I would suggest for it the name of the late Sir Edward Parry, who, 
as he has carried his name to the most northern latitude yet reached, 
should have in this, the highest known northern land, a recognition 
of his pre-eminent position among Arctic explorers. 
The extension of the American coast to the southwest, as it appears 
upon the chart, was the work of Dr. Hayes and William Godfrey, 
renewed and confirmed by myself in April of the present year. It 
completes the survey of the coast as far as the Cape Sabine of Captain 
Inglefield. The land is very lofty, sometimes rising at its culminating 
peaks to the height of two thousand five hundred feet. The travel 
along the western and northwestern coast was made for the most part 
upon the ice-foot. One large bay, in latitude 79° 40' N., longitude 
73° W., by estimate, extended forty miles into the interior, and was 
terminated by a glacier. A large island occupies the southwestern 
curve of that bay. 
A summary of the operations of the expedition will therefore com¬ 
prehend— 
1. The survey and delineation of the north coast of Greenland to 
its termination by a great glacier. 
2. The survey of this glacial mass and its extension northward into 
the new land named Washington. 
3. The discovery of a large channel to the northwest, free from ice, 
and leading into an open and expanding area equally free. The whole 
embraces an icelcss area of four thousand two hundred miles. 
4. The discovery and delineation of a large tract of land forming 
the extension northward of the American* continent. 
5. The completed survey of the American coast to the south and 
west as far as Cape Sabine, thus connecting our survey with the last- 
determined position of Captain Inglefield, and completing the circuit 
of the straits and bay heretofore known at their southernmost opening 
as Smith's Sound. 
The summer of 1854 had brought with it few changes bearing 
toward the liberation of our brig. The melted snows did not run 
in the water-channels until the 30th of June, and our limited flora 
showed a tardy and inauspicious season. 
On the 12th of July, the ice being still unbroken as far as Anoatok, 
I set out in a whaleboat with five volunteers, to communicate, if pos¬ 
sible, with our English brethren whom we supposed to be at Beechy 
Island, The declining state of our resources suggested this attempt, 
although it promised many difficulties. 
It occupied us until the 6th of August. We found a solid pack 
