Further, Hobson described that the “The runners were of three-inch oak reduced at the top to two inches,” which accords with McClintock’s average of 2.5 inches. For example, Hobson estimated the breadth of the sledge as only two feet, which must be an error (Stenton 2014:518). The other account was written by Lieutenant Hobson, who was the first to discover the sledge and the boat that rested on it, and it adds details not included in McClintock’s more famous monograph. It is only one of two detailed firsthand accounts describing the sledging equipment left by Crozier and his crew (there are also several accounts by the Inuit, recorded by Hall, but these are far less detailed). The above observation, made by Francis Leopold McClintock on May 30 th, 1859, occurred roughly a decade after the boat and sledge had been abandoned on the western coast of King William Island.
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