. An account of the Arctic regions [microform] : with a history and description of the northern whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. (70) CIIIIONOLOGICAL LIST OF VOYAGES. [aPP. n" III. 1791 Eru to 1795. A. D. 1789, *S^. Two corvettes, under the orders of Malaspina, were sent to the N. W. of America, to search for a navigable communication from the Pacific to the Atlantic, be- tween the parallels of 63° and 60" N. 1790 En. Charles Duncan sailed in one of the Hudson's Bav to ships, with the view of being furnished with a small 1792. vessel on his arrival out, for making
. An account of the Arctic regions [microform] : with a history and description of the northern whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. (70) CIIIIONOLOGICAL LIST OF VOYAGES. [aPP. n" III. 1791 Eru to 1795. A. D. 1789, *S^. Two corvettes, under the orders of Malaspina, were sent to the N. W. of America, to search for a navigable communication from the Pacific to the Atlantic, be- tween the parallels of 63° and 60" N. 1790 En. Charles Duncan sailed in one of the Hudson's Bav to ships, with the view of being furnished with a small 1792. vessel on his arrival out, for making investigations to- wards a N. W. passage; but being disappointed, both in the vessel and crew provided for him, he re- turned to England without attempting any thing. The following year he proceeded on the adventure to- wards the N. W. in a small vessel fitted out of Lon- don; wintered in Hudson's Bay, then made some slight examination of ClitsterfieWs Inlet, and again return- ed to a port in the Bay to winter. After these failures or disappointments, nothing else by him was attempt- ed. Two vessels, under the command of George Vancouver, were sent out to the west coast of North America, part- ly for receiving back some territories which had been seized by the Spaniards, and partly for discovery in regard of a navigable communication from the Pacific to the Atlantic, between the parallels of 30» and 60° N. The whole of the west coast was accordingly traced from latitude 30' to the head of Cook's Inlet, in about 61° 18'. In this lalx)rious investigation, Vancouver sailed almost 1000 miles in channels, in some places very contracter', between ranges of islands and the main. The non-existence of a passage through the continent, within the limits prescribed, was well es- tablished. Several islands to the northward of that part of Russia, included between the Jana and the Kovima, were dis- covered in different brief northern expeditions, among which was au extensive tract of co
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