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« You had some extremely valuable instruments ?”<—“ I had 
the finest instruments that were ever carried out on an expedi¬ 
tion.” 
“ What were your instruments worth ?”-—“ My instruments 
and books were worth nearly £1000.” 
“ Could you give a statement of them ?”—I cannot give an 
exact statement of them .” 
“ The whole of which you lost ?”— a Yes. I saved my sex¬ 
tant and one chronometer” 
« Do you also include that in your £3000 expenses in the out¬ 
set of the voyage?”—“ Yes.” 
“ That you reckon the whole of your loss?”—“ Yes £8000.” 
We have in the body of this work frequently been obliged to 
allude to the palpable questions, which were put to Capt. Ross 
by some of the members of the committee, and the intent of 
which could not be mistaken, [t must also appear to the mean¬ 
est capacity, that some of the members must have acquired some 
private information touching certain points of the expedition, 
previously to the committee entering upon their labors, or they 
never could have framed their questions in the manner repre¬ 
sented in their report. Thus it was necessary, as one part of the 
foundation for their recommendation of the grant of £5,000, to 
prove that Capt. Ross had sustained a heavy loss in personal pro¬ 
perty, leaving the difference between that loss and the £5,000 to 
be made up by the great and important services which he had 
rendered to nautical and geographical science, and particularly 
to the solution of the important question of the true position of 
the magnetic pole. As some of the members of the committee 
are fellows of the Royal Society, it is by no means an impro¬ 
bable case that they might have been present at the reading of 
so important a document as the memoir of Commander Ross, on 
the interesting question of the discovery of the true position of 
the magnetic pole, and in which the information could not pos¬ 
sibly have escaped them, respecting the paucity of instruments, 
which were taken out on the voyage, arising from the smallness 
of the vessel employed on the expedition. Nevertheless the lead¬ 
ing question is put to Gapt. Ross,—You had some extremely 
