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- body of warm water passed between Greenland, or rather Iceland, and Norway, 
tl was an offset to the north-cast of a portion of the Gulf-stream. The mode of 
- ’drift was explained by a diagram of the winds in lat. >7 V’ north, long. 32 i” west, 
-■rived from Commander Maury’s observations, but which showed some impcrfec- 
'niiii the recording or arrangement. In this the great prevalence of the south-west 
••wthe north-east winds was clearly seen ; and to this was owing the drift, which 
triraEngland and Iceland habitable, and enters the Arctic Basin, as has Imi ii de- 
• T ‘.d. The course of this stream was thrn traced step by step, eastward, till it 
into Baffin’s Buy or north of Greenland, between it and Spitsbergen, whence, 
-•“-jgioutim-ards, it joined the southerly set down Baffin's Bay, across the hanks of 
' ^m.dland, transporting the deeply-mimmid ben:- iuto the warm waters of the 
R<nicml Gulf-stream, and then, turuiug to the south-west, between the Gulf- 
*-j«m aud the coast, it was lost as a surface current ot Cape Hattera*. 
u/tl 6 t * ic . n ’ a3 we " 113 hi the south, the circulatory system is apparent, 
" eat ” P° r t' 011 of tile Waters of the ocean visits, hy turns, every portion of 
'•d'TinU John Franklin was next brought forward as a collateral subject. 
-1 .u ; that the statement that two deserted and dismantled ships, seen 
jilt,,,. i.. n , “orth edge of the Newfoundland Banks on April 20, last, was 
I-'dmi’anrT'T . ^ w h*ch l ,c had uo doubt, they were the unfortunate 
f«tiM vhngi. ? ror ’ ^* 1C P or I" ec t consistency of the story u« related by the different 
- 'uprohahilii 60 r ° n ^ , never been shaken by the strictest investigation, and 
mdiuion tii»s ,l ot nn y Whaling-ships remaining perfect for many years, led to the 
from the nn-rp? C ° U ? be 1)0 Qther * 
'•hnirrent out n f r « 0 . rvat, * onB ’ waa s h° wn that there was n constant set of 
that a n floatin i r 8 ■ ^ and the inlets connected with it to the southward, 
*->olvc, would be l 'a i '“eluding the ices which the •uraim r's heat would not 
or f ' n i°..! ho . r™ regions south of Labnulor and 
: 'd«l the latter n '• f° rCt:t I °u to its shores. The strict but fruitless search pre- 
•^wded wi, ; P lnion - Supposing then I hat tlm * Erebus' and 'Terror’ had 
^Considered * t0D V^ auue I and penny Strnit, as was then fully believed, it 
Smith’* grv.f I? 0381 * 3 !® that they, being abandoned, might he aguin drifted 
pin the ice a ttiA . ° f round Greenland into the position of the de-erted vessels 
. faster ii^nA muc h more easy of belief if they had not passed beyond 
^“goiie Cte?g '. , tt0 possibility o( such a circumstance was held from the 
beingcauaiir ac ® xr J""'® 8 Ro* 8 out of Lancaster Sound j of the 
1 [j" the io" e . ? .I 1 ” forced out of the water in 1837, and remaining 118 days 
n “"'.drifted’io (K ? irn ., 11 cajst ' s cited by Dr. Scorcsby, one of which, a Dutch ship 
.'•Importantstill ? lles .to the suutluvard in 108 days and still preserved; and 
fir r,' 1 - the piece'Y , * lc ’ Gunnell Expedition out of Barrow’s Strait, 
86 lithe south oti i b ° nl 8 nmat nni * R boats awning stanchion, picked up by 
- r T ;' JQ the Franklin if COa8 v^ Wollaston Lund, was confidently believed to be a 
1 , *7 stated. Expedition, and would entirely agree with what had been 
^nvI' Ce the^ifb;JjT*& resorit . expeditions returned without gaining nny 
“"hghtbc takpn .» * r ? mam ' > ' ir o“ded in mystery, and the explanations 
the only Bolution of this painful enigma, 
f rnm - 
^ Qr Htxil o/l) f J ,l f^ onSU t * iARRIKr ' to Lord Cl A UK moon, announcing 
'WL^rd.-l h a 'v e STON Lnanda ' on the Wcst Coast of Africa. 
? Ut l«»% i or ng8f0n * who in acquainting your lordship that the Rev. 
« °L ex P'oring th i rum lle Ca P« Good Hope, in May 1852, for the 
? Coa ^t^ with Le most & hprn , Africa ’ arrivcd ftt thlH Ph.cc on the 
fewhera LftT ®® 1 Ulc n-ieridiTnVnfe \T UUn< ^’ travcmd the ,nU ‘ r '" r of 
[theYan.i a *tude, i\i r , ■ . ‘ na -3 and 26 of east longitude, as fur as Q° 
CUF'Skt* ly 'k 8 ia the cen*t?e of th < ?° ttr r ed ^u" > lt;ht ,nDnths the country 
* ^letu th’’ Wllere he appears to ?° nUnt ' ut : between the parallel- of 14° anil 
’ e paramount chief and V i e , ecn rccc ‘ ve d in the most amiable manner 
chief, and during that time he seems to have laboured 
