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Sir John Ross (1777-1856)
Autograph manuscript signed ('John Ross Rear Adml'), 'Lines written and left on the North East Point of America by Captain John Ross, RN September 1832', August 1851, ten lines of verse, with a note on the circumstances of their composition, illustrated with an autograph sketch of 'Leopold Harbour', one page, 8vo, on a bifolium (mounted with adhesive tape, framed and glazed).
'After a fruitless attempt in our boats to penetrate through the ice from Leopold harbour to Cape Yorke these lines were put into a tin box and left in a Cave (as in the sketch) on the top of the mountain and have not yet been found'. Ross's published account makes reference to two deposits towards the end of the month of 'accounts of our proceedings' in tin cases under a cairn. In 1851, at the time of copying the lines, Ross had returned from leading one of the Franklin search expeditions and, at the age of 73, now a rear-admiral (retired), had put an end to his Arctic career.
Autograph manuscript signed ('John Ross Rear Adm
'After a fruitless attempt in our boats to penetrate through the ice from Leopold harbour to Cape Yorke these lines were put into a tin box and left in a Cave (as in the sketch) on the top of the mountain and have not yet been found'. Ross's published account makes reference to two deposits towards the end of the month of 'accounts of our proceedings' in tin cases under a cairn. In 1851, at the time of copying the lines, Ross had returned from leading one of the Franklin search expeditions and, at the age of 73, now a rear-admiral (retired), had put an end to his Arctic career.