THE POLAR EXPEDITION.
To the Editor, Sir,'—ln the telegraphic report of this expedition just published there are several discrepancies and obscurities- which appear to require explanation, and which it may not be amiss to point out. We read that the Alert reached the ntmost limit of navigation, and wintered in lat. 82deg. 28min, ; that here the sun was invisible 142 days; that a sledge party travelled thence northward for about seventy days, making seventy-three miles only of direct progress, reaching lat. 82deg, 20min., which is eight miles south of their starting point, instead of seventy-three miles north of it. Moreover, the sun’s lower limb ouyht to have been under the horizon only 138 to 139 days, and his upper limb two or three days less. The statement that another party rounded the north-west point of America, and traced 220 miles westward from Greeland, &c., is unintelligible. Nor is the telegram to the ‘Daily News’ that the northermost land reached was in lat. 83 07, in accordance with the next statement that the most northerly land in-Greenland was in lat. 83.57. These and other discrepancies will probably disappear when the narrative itself arrives, but at present they indicate anything but carefulness on the part of either -printers, transcribers, or telegraphists-—I am, &c., Particular. . Dunedin, December 6.
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Evening Star, Issue 4299, 6 December 1876, Page 4
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215THE POLAR EXPEDITION. Evening Star, Issue 4299, 6 December 1876, Page 4
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