. In the Lena Delta; a narrative of the search for De Long and his companions . CIRCUMPOLAR MAP SHOWING MELVILLES PRO HIGHEST POIN. Struther*. ServoM & 0>., Engre. N. V. ED ROUTE; THE DRIFT OF THE JEANNETTE;EACH ED, ETC. A METHOD FOR REACHING THE POLE. 477 And so I iterate that depots made upon the ice arefugitive and utterly unreliable. IV. By observing, however, the drift and discharge of theice, it may be possible to make good use of it on the re-treat if not on the advance. The southerly ice-drift iswell known, — down through Baffins Bay and betweenSpitzbergen and Green
. In the Lena Delta; a narrative of the search for De Long and his companions . CIRCUMPOLAR MAP SHOWING MELVILLES PRO HIGHEST POIN. Struther*. ServoM & 0>., Engre. N. V. ED ROUTE; THE DRIFT OF THE JEANNETTE;EACH ED, ETC. A METHOD FOR REACHING THE POLE. 477 And so I iterate that depots made upon the ice arefugitive and utterly unreliable. IV. By observing, however, the drift and discharge of theice, it may be possible to make good use of it on the re-treat if not on the advance. The southerly ice-drift iswell known, — down through Baffins Bay and betweenSpitzbergen and Greenland. It was against this lattercurrent that the gallant Parry marched so persistentlyfor weeks, only to be thrown back upon his ship at thenorthern point of Spitzbergen. The drift between Nova Zembla and Spitzbergen, al-though not so well traced as the others, has yet been sat-isfactorily observed along the east coast of the latterisland, which is almost inaccessible because of the hugemasses of ice heaped upon its shores, and the drift-woodwhich for ages has been accumulating from the great Si-berian rivers. This drift continues down
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