. The American encyclopedia of history, biography and travel . ized people. On his arrival in England, Captain Franklin was made a post-captain;he married, in August, 1823, the daughter of William Penden, Esq., 922 AMERICAN ENCYCLOPEDIA. architect of the kings stables at Brighton; and, at the end of the sameyear, submitted to Lord Bathurst a plan for an expedition over-land tothe mouth of the Mackenzie River, and thence, by sea, to the north-west-ern extremity of America; with the combined object, also, of surveyingthe coast between the Mackenzie and Copper Mine Rivers; an expedi-tion which he
. The American encyclopedia of history, biography and travel . ized people. On his arrival in England, Captain Franklin was made a post-captain;he married, in August, 1823, the daughter of William Penden, Esq., 922 AMERICAN ENCYCLOPEDIA. architect of the kings stables at Brighton; and, at the end of the sameyear, submitted to Lord Bathurst a plan for an expedition over-land tothe mouth of the Mackenzie River, and thence, by sea, to the north-west-ern extremity of America; with the combined object, also, of surveyingthe coast between the Mackenzie and Copper Mine Rivers; an expedi-tion which he was permitted to superintend, upon his showing to govern-ment, that in the proposed course, similar dangers to those of the formerover-land expedition were not to be apprehended. Accordingly, on the 16th of February, 1825, he embarked at Liverpool,having undergone a severe struggle between the feelings of affection anda sense of duty, in taking leave of his wife, whose death, then hourlyexpected, took place six days after his departure. On the 29th of June,. CAPTAIN SIR JOHN FRANKLIN, K. H. C. he arrived at the Methye River, and, in the following August, at the leftbank of the Mackenzie, whence he proceeded to the mouth of that river,and, shortly after, found salt water; in commemoration of which, he landedon an island which he had discovered, and hoisted on a pole a silk union-jack, sewed and given him by his wife, under the express injunction thatit was not to be unfurled before the expedition reached the sea. Onleaving this island, which he called Garrys, and where he had deposited,beneath a signal-pole, a letter for Captain Parry, he commenced his ascentof the Great Bear Lake River, on the banks of which he remained till thesummer of 1826, when, in spite of many dangers and obstacles, he pro-ceeded to about half-way between Mackenzie River and Icy Cape, in lati-tude 70 deg. 26 min. N., and longitude 148 deg. 52 min. W.; at whichpoint he calculated he could not with safety
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