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Title: An account of the Arctic regions (microform) : with a history and description of the northern whale-fishery
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Year: 1820 (1820s)
Authors: Scoresby, William, 1789-1857
Subjects: Natural history; Sciences naturelles
Publisher: Edinburgh; (London) : Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. , Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson and Co. . .. London
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(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 country, now called Nczo Siberia. Lieii i.>nant Kotzebue, in a small vessel called the Ru- rick, was employed for making discoveries to the northward of Behring's Strait on the side of America. He passed Behring's Strait in 1816, and after some little time spent in research, returned to the south- ward to ^vinter. The next summer, Kotzebue pro- ceeded again towards the north ; but baring met with 1805 Ru to 1809 1815 Ru. u 1818.
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