PEARY'S VIEWS ON STARTING.
"There i&;no doubt in my mind,"* says Commander. Peaiy, "that -the 'bijr • lead' cncoiinter.ed in both- my "upward .; and -reluMi'' marches in my r last, expedi- ■? , tiou. which was also- observed bvt me in IDo2— althoughi . closed at . that time-^ia an essentialU-.pe'rinsn-nt featpre of thfa part' of 'the Arctic Ocean. This lead ex-' tends .westward -from Cape,'- Morris Jesup.. the mqst: northern point- of 'Green-r land, in tlie;geuerai neighbourhood of ■ the eighty- fourth 'parallel;" ,'toward - Crocker Land) and forms the line of de- " marcatioii behveen-the Heavy, rough,' nearly motionless ■ ice embayed 'in the -great ibißht-Jbstweeii' Cape : Jesup* and. . Crocker Land, and tho less heavy,: and' "v mobile" ice' of the Central;- Polar sea, moving steadily from the ice-encumber-, ■'. ed areas riortn of. JBehring Strait, and ajross the Pole .tovyard.- the North. "Atlantic^ in. a broad stream between Capo '■: Jlorris Jesup and the northern point-in Franz Josef Land." • . . : :
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 11 September 1909, Page 1
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151PEARY'S VIEWS ON STARTING. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 11 September 1909, Page 1
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