Greeley was now asked by James Gordon Bennett to go into partnership with him in starting The Herald.
He declined the venture, but recommended the partner whom Bennett subsequently took.
Bennett, Roosevelt and the Republic (New York, 1908), is bitterly hostile.
Some confusion prevails also as to whether the islands Bennett, Henrietta and Jeannette, discovered by the "Jeannette" expedition, ought to be included in the same archipelago, or described separately as the Jeannette Islands.
Basalts and Tertiary brown coal deposits enter into the composition of the southern extremity of Bennett Island, and the mountains of Sannikov Land, seen by Toll, have the aspect of basaltic "table mountains."
