Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . Some accountof the voyage is given in a subsequent section (p. 292 ?•<eq.).. ilODEL OF THE OEIGIXAL XORE LIGHTSHIP. [By permission of the Elder Brethren, Trinity Ilorise.) The squadron met with terrible calamities, but the profitsof the voyage were immense, for a great number of mostvaluable Spanish prizes were made, one vessel alone havinga carc^o worth £400,000. Polar exploration, and especially the sea
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . Some accountof the voyage is given in a subsequent section (p. 292 ?•<eq.).. ilODEL OF THE OEIGIXAL XORE LIGHTSHIP. [By permission of the Elder Brethren, Trinity Ilorise.) The squadron met with terrible calamities, but the profitsof the voyage were immense, for a great number of mostvaluable Spanish prizes were made, one vessel alone havinga carc^o worth £400,000. Polar exploration, and especially the search for a North- Arctic Ex-West Passage, also received some attention from naval 1741 Commander Christopher Middleton, who, beforejoining the Navy, had been in the Hudsons Bay Companys 30 THE AGE OF WALPOLE. Suppres-sion ofthe Buc-caneers. service, was given direction of a little expedition composedof two sloops-of-war, but lie did not get further north than60 30. In 1745 an Act was passed offering a premiumof £20,000 for the discovery and making of the Passage byany British subject, and subsequently other expeditions werefitted out, but the results of them were, upon the whole,disappomting. The West Indies, far into the Georgian era, were stillt
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