Narrative of the Second Voyage of Captain Ross to the Arctic Regions, in the Years 1829-30-31-32-33Henry Renshaw, 1834 - 150 páginas |
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74th degree accompanied Admiralty Arctic Seas arrival ascertain August Baffin's Bay Barrow board the Isabella boats Cape Cape Garry Captain Back Captain Beaufort Captain John Ross Captain Parry Captain Ross coast Commander Ross Committee considerable considered crew direction discovered distance Esquimaux Felix Booth Felix Harbour fishery Fort Reliance Frobisher's Strait Fury Beach gallant honour House of Commons hundred miles Island isthmus laid Lancaster Sound letter Lord de Saumarez lordships magnetic pole Majesty's Government mander Ross Mate Melville ment navigation nearly needle nephew netic pole north magnetic pole north-west passage northward object observations October officer opinion party period position Prince Regent's Inlet proceeded Professor Barlow provisions reached Resolution Island river Ross's Royal Navy seaman ship shore Sir Edward Parry Slave Lake snow spot survey tain Ross Thom thousand pounds tion vessel Victory whale whole WILLIAM LIGHT William Thom winter
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Página 26 - Boothia," as also the isthmus, the peninsula to the north, and the eastern sea, after my worthy friend Felix Booth, Esq., the truly patriotic citizen of London, who, in the most disinterested manner, enabled me to equip this expedition in a superior style. The last winter was in temperature nearly equal to the...
Página 67 - ... briefly comprehended in the following words: — The discovery of the Gulf of Boothia, the continent and isthmus of Boothia Felix, and a vast number of islands, rivers, and lakes; the undeniable establishment that the north-east point of America extends to the 74th degree of north latitude...
Página 33 - The discovery of the Gulf of Boothia, the continent and isthmus of Boothia Felix, and a vast number of islands, rivers, and lakes ; the undeniable establishment that the north-east point of America extends to the 74th degree of north latitude ; valuable observations of every kind, but particularly on the magnet; and, to crown all, we have had the honour of placing the illustrious name of our most gracious Sovereign William IV. on the true position of the magnetic pole.
Página 31 - ... Possession Bay, and subsequently on the west coast of Baffin's Bay, afforded me an excellent opportunity of concluding my survey, and of verifying my former chart of that coast. I now have the pleasing duty of calling the attention of their Lordships to the merits of Commander Ross, who was second in the direction of this Expedition. The labours of this officer...
Página 21 - NW passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, particularly by Prince Regent's Inlet, and which sailed from England in May, 1829, notwithstanding the loss of the foremast and other untoward circumstances which obliged the vessel to refit in Greenland, reached the beach on which His Majesty's late ship Fury's stores were landed, on the 13th of August.
Página 30 - August that we had any cheering prospect. A gale from the westward having suddenly opened •' a lane of water along shore, in two days we reached our former position, and, from the mountain, we had...
Página 68 - Ross, who volunteered this service early in April, and, accompanied by one of the mates, and guided by two of the natives, proceeded to the spot, and found that the north land was connected to the south by two ridges of high land...
Página 110 - I have received and laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your Letter of the...
Página 26 - This autumn we succeeded in getting the vessel only 14 miles to the northward, and as we had not doubled the Eastern Cape, all hope of saving the ship was at an end, and put quite beyond possibility by another very severe winter ; and having only provisions to last us to...
Página 31 - Thom, of the royal navy, who was formerly with me in the Isabella, besides his duty, as third in command, took charge of the meteorological journal, the distribution and economy of provisions, and to his judicious plans and suggestions must be attributed the uncommon degree of health which our crew enjoyed ; and -as two out of the three who died in the four years and a half were cut off early in the voyage, by diseases not peculiar to the climate, only one man can be said to