FIRE. House burnt in town last week.
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So-TH Polar CHART We are indebted
to Edmund Blunt, Esq. for the loan of a
/" Chart of the South Polar Sea" published
by the British Admiralty in June OF last year


1t presents at one view, all the land then
known to have been discovered in the An
tartic regions, and the course of the different
exploring voyages which had been made in
those seas. The entire sweep of land dis
covered and coastcd by the American Ex


ploring Expedition from the 10Th of January
to the 18th of February. 1910, extending
from lon. l'ji f. to lon 81 w is put down
on this chart as a perfect blank. with the SIN
gle exception that in long u T.. between
lat G5 and sc, is this memorandum; " Nu-
mcrous iccburgs and indications of land


March, 1882" seen by Capt Balcny. In
plain English, Capt. Ballcny saw no land
there, but only indications Of land. Or, to
use the language Of the London Nautical
Magazine, he saw astonishing quantities of
drift ice, field ice, and ce-bcrgs, with " eri-
dcmly land al the back" Accordingly, no
land is laid down in the chart before us, in
high Southern latitudes-not even an island,
between East lon. 60, and East lon. l6O.
Such was the ignorance of the British Ad-
miralty, in June, 1889, of the existence of
n Continent which correspondent of the
Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, who 81 gns
himselfR w. Haskins, informs us was "welI
known to the Americans long ago.


Captain NIorrcll, (he says whose voy-
ages in the South Seas were published some
ten or twelve years since, discovered this
Continent. The book is not now at hand;