"It was in 1848 that I was with Captain Lee in the 'Prince of Wales,' when we ran up Jones's Sound. The wind was from the S.S.E. compass (_E.N.E. true_), thick weather, with a strong breeze. We steered up Jones's Sound, N.E. by compass (_westwardly true_), for fourteen hours, when, seeing some ice aground, we hauled to. "The next day, being fine weather, we proceeded farther up, and seeing no ice or fish (_whales_), a boat was sent on shore. She, returning, reported not having seen any thing but _very high land_ and _deep water close to_ rocks on the south shore. "We tacked ship, and stood to the N.E. compass (_N.W. true_); saw some ice aground on a sand-bank, with only six feet water on it at low water, but standing on the N.E. compass (_N.W. true_), found deep water from five to eight miles across from the sand to the north shore. When past the sand, open water as far as we could see from the masthead, and extending from about _N.E. to N.N.W. compass_ (N.W. to W.S.W. true). We then returned, being fine and clear, and could not see what we were in search of (whales). "Leaving the north land, a long, low point, running up to a _table-top mountain, we came across to the south side, which was bold land right out of the sound_. "We saw the _Pinnacle Rocks at the end of that sound_ (_Princess Charlotte's Monument_); and _this and the low land between that sound_ and _Lancaster Sound_, as we were running to the S.E., makes me confident is the same place which we were up in the 'Pioneer.' "The distance we ran up the sound in the 'Prince of Wales,' I think, to the best of my judgment, was about a hundred and fifty or sixty miles, &c. "(Signed) ROBERT MOORE, "Ice quarter-master, H.M.S. 'Pioneer.' "To Lieut. Sherard Osborn." The italics in the above letter serve to show how correctly these observations of my quarter-master agreed with the sound we were up; and taking this, together with the description of the land seen by Captain Stewart and Dr. Sutherland, during their late journey up the eastern side of Wellington Channel, I believe that a very narrow intervening belt of low land divides Jones's Sound from Baring Bay, in Wellington Channel, and that, turning to the northward, this sound eventually opens into the same great Polar Sea which washes the northern shores of the Parry group. [Headnote: _ERECTION OF A CAIRN._]