. 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. 225 seen; luckily also there was no land. On the 18th, on getting" once more clo» to the northern shore, the navigators began to make a little way, and some showers of rain and snow, accompanied with heavy wind, pro- duced such an effect, that on the 2l8t the whole ice had disappeared, and they could scarcely believe it to be the same sea w
. 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. 225 seen; luckily also there was no land. On the 18th, on getting" once more clo» to the northern shore, the navigators began to make a little way, and some showers of rain and snow, accompanied with heavy wind, pro- duced such an effect, that on the 2l8t the whole ice had disappeared, and they could scarcely believe it to be the same sea which had just before been covered with floes upon floes as far as the eye could reach. Mr Parry now crowded all sail to the westward, and, though detained by want of wind, he passed Radstock Bay, Capes Hurd and Hotham, and Beechey Island; after which he discovered a fine and broad inlet leading to the north, which he called Wellington, the greatest name of the age. The sea at the mouth being perfectly open, he would not have hesitated to ascend it, had there not been before him, along the southern side of an island named Comwallis, an open channel leading due west. Wellington Inlet was now considered by the officers, so high were their hopes, as forming the west- ern boundary of the land stretching from Baffin's Bay to the Polar Sea, into which they had little doubt they were entering. For this reason Lieutenant Parry did not hesitate to give to the great channel, which was un- derstood to effect so desirable a junction, the merited ap- pellation of Barrow's Strait, after the much-esteemed promoter of the expedition. A favourable breeze now sprung up, and the adventurers passed gaily ar tri- umphantly along the extensive shore of Cornwallia Island, then coasted a larger island named Bathurst, and next a smaller one called Byam Martin. At this last place they judged by some experiments that they had passed the magnetic meridian, situated probably in about 100 degrees west longi
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