Bent's Theory

Gapt. Bent claims teat Captain Hall s ipedition vcvifles his theory of tbe gate■way to tlio polo. Hesays: " This expedition has met with disaster and failure, as has all others uiidertaken in that direction for the past tlnes centuries, and these failurcs havo been caused by tho obstacles arising frotn the severo climate ofthat región, the stvong' opposinf curront and the impreKii;ille maspf-B of ice borne to the smithward by that currLnt, as illustrated by tfaï& voyege of fiftoen hundred miles made by Tyson and his party on ioe-floes in the short space of six, mouths, whilst, as I have beforesaid, tho route along the patli os the Gulf streara is far more genial ïn ternperature, and tho obstruetions, as shown by recent eipeditions in that ditreotion raado during: the past, three years by the Germán and Bwedigh fishirigboats, that visited Lnrl'3 Island to the northeast of Spitzbergen would amount to nothinp; for a steamer, but the path of tho Gulf stream must be followod withcut deviation, and this eould easily be done by the tass of the water thermometer.