. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history, and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. RECENT NORTH-WEST VOYAGES. 209 list, yet hope- mander jverley, crow's etching on, it is le most rely for bserva- ed, the ; states he bay inected ;. The the sig- Sound. him, in myste- ine ex- rer for him to hannel, ong" the it, with- lal pro- n mag. er lati- chance jurvey Jturned e most ns had Sound i^estern moun* tains, it must, he conceived, be for ever innavi- gable
. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history, and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. RECENT NORTH-WEST VOYAGES. 209 list, yet hope- mander jverley, crow's etching on, it is le most rely for bserva- ed, the ; states he bay inected ;. The the sig- Sound. him, in myste- ine ex- rer for him to hannel, ong" the it, with- lal pro- n mag. er lati- chance jurvey Jturned e most ns had Sound i^estern moun* tains, it must, he conceived, be for ever innavi- gable on account of the ice with which it is filled. The intelligent individuals, however, who L " fitted out the expedition with such zeal and on so great a scale, felt deep dissatisfaction both at this con- clusion and at the premises from which it had been drawn. The grounds, in particular, on which Lan- caster Sound, an opening so noble and so spacious, and in a position so favourable in respect to west- ern discovery, had been so abruptly quitted, ap- peared wholly inadmissible. The same opinion was very decidedly espoused by several of the officers, and especially by Lieutenant Parry, who was second in command, but had never been consulted on the occasion, and who declared the relinquishment of all attempt at discovery at that crisis to be in his eyes completely unaccountable. It was determined in short, that a fresh expedition should be equipped and intrusted to Mr. Parry, that he might fulfil, if possible, his own sanguine hopes and those of his employers. He was furnished with the Hecla of 375 tons, and a crew of fifty-eight men; and with the'tSriper gun-brig of 180 tons, and thirty-six men, commanded by Lieutenant Liddon. These ships were made as strong and as well-fitted as possible for the navigation of the Arctic seas; and were stored with ample provisions for two years, a copious supply of antiscorbutics, and every thing which could enable the crews to endure the
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