. 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. 22! These ships were made as strong as possible for thv^ 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 most extreme rigours of a Polar winter. Lieutenant Farry, destined to outstrip all his pre- decessors in the ca
. 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. 22! These ships were made as strong as possible for thv^ 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 most extreme rigours of a Polar winter. Lieutenant Farry, destined to outstrip all his pre- decessors in the career of northern discovery, weighed anchor at the Nore on the 11th May 1819, and on the 20th rounded the remotest point of the Orkneys. He endeavoured to cross the Atlantic about the parallel of 68% and though impeded during the first fortnight of June by a series of unfavourable weather, obtained on the 16th, from the distance apparently of not less than forty leagues, a view of the lofty cliffs composing Cape Farewell. On the 18th the ships first fell in with ice- bergs, the air being also filled with petrels, kittiwakes, terns, and other winged inhabitants of the northern sky. He now made an effort to push north and west, through the icy masses, in the direction of Lancaster Sound; but these suddenly closed upon him; and on the 26th both vessels were so immovably beset that no power could turn their heads a single point of the compass. They remained thus fixed, but safe, when, on the morning of the second day, a aeavy roll of the sea loosened the ice, and drove it against them with such violence, that only their very strong construction saved them from severe injury. The discoverers therefore were fain to extricate themselves as soon as possible; and, resigning the idea of reaching Lancaster Sound by the most direct course, resolved to steer northward along the border of this great icy field till they should find open water. In this progress they verified the observation of
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