ARCTIC VOYAGES. 
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The unfortunate “ Advance” was beset by the pack ice, a few miles 
inside the southern boundary of the great mass of permanently fixed ice 
which fills Kane’s Sea within the limits already specified. All her efforts 
to get further north failed; and she was ultimately abandoned in Rens¬ 
selaer Bay, in the same manner that the “Investigator” was left by 
Sir Robert McClure in the Bay of Mercy. We believe that the solid ice 
of Kane’s Sea is due to the meeting of the Arctic and Atlantic Tides, 
and that if this barrier were once crossed, it would be possible to find 
permanently open water to the north, such as we know exists to the 
south, in Baffin’s Bay. 
The last book on our list of Arctic Voyages at present is the well 
written and highly interesting narrative of the voyage, abandonment, 
and recovery of H. M. S. “ Resolute,” by Mr. M‘Dougall. The tides 
at Dealy Island were carefully observed by Mr. M‘Dougall, who states 
the time of high water at the full and change at l h 39 m to l h 48 m . 
We have collected from various sources, kindly placed at our dis¬ 
posal by Arctic officers, the means of making the following Table, re¬ 
duced to Greenwich time, which shows the progress of high water to 
the westward from Lancaster Sound towards the meeting of the tides in 
Banks’ Strait:— 
True Establishment (Greenwich Time). 
H. M. 
At Leopold Harbour,.5 45 
Assistance Harbour,.6 16 
Griffith’s Island,.6 5 
Dealy Island,.9 8 
From this Table it is pretty evident that the time of high water, at 
full and change, at the head of the tide, or point of meeting, is at 10 or 
11 o’clock; in fact, at much the same time as the high water at the 
corresponding meeting of the tides in the Irish Sea and Strait of Dover. 
The Wellington Channel forms an offset bay, like the Bristol Chan¬ 
nel or the Gulf of St. Malo. It is filled quicker by the tide than Mel¬ 
ville Sound. The following observation is highly important in its 
bearing on the true theory of tidal currents in the Wellington Channel:— 
“ 24th. Mr. Court (acting master) left with a party of four men, to watch the tide 
at a crack about three miles west of Beechey North Point. 
“ He returned on the 26th, and reported the flood tide set to the northward, and con¬ 
tinued doing so two hours after the time of high water at Beechey Island. He found the 
length of flood and ebb nearly equal, but the strength of the former was much greater 
than the current of the latter.” 
From the fact that the tidal stream sets for two hours to the north, 
up the Wellington Channel, after the time of high water on shore, the 
analogy to the southern half of the Irish Sea is apparent. 
Our limits do not permit us to make more than a few extracts from 
Mr. M‘Dougall’s book. Our first is the account of Mecham’s discovery 
of drift wood in Prince Patrick’s Island :— 
