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Identifier: Journalsecondvo00Parr (find matches)
Title: Journal of a second voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific : performed in the years 1821-22-23, in His Majesty's ships Fury and Hecla, under the orders of Captain William Edward Parry : illustrated by numerous plates
Year: 1824 (1820s)
Authors: Parry, William Edward, Sir, 1790-1855 Lyon, G. F. (George Francis), 1795-1832, ill Finden, Edward Francis, 1791-1857, engraver Melville, Robert Saunders Dundas, Viscount, 1771-1851, dedicatee
Subjects: Parry, William Edward, Sir, 1790-1855 Fury (Ship) Hecla (Ship) Natural history Eskimos Inuit
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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the hill for that purpose. At thirty mi-nutes past eight A.M., however, just as we were setting off, the windsuddenly fell, and the ice began immediately to approach the shore. Wetherefore weighed just in time to avoid a large floe-piece that drifted intothe bay ; and, standing over to the main body of ice to the northward, sud-denly got soundings in sixteen to twelve fathoms, and then dropped intotwenty and twenty-five fathoms, no bottom. The Hecla a little to the west-ward of us had several casts from seven to five and three quarter fathoms,and, from the rippling occasioned by the tide, it is probable that there isshoaler water in this neighbourhood. Our distance from the south shore wasabout two miles and a half, and about four from Georgina Island, on an E.b.S.bearing. After standing a quarter of a mile beyond the shoal, the ice obligedus to tack; and as there was not at present the smallest prospect of ourgetting to the northward, so as to approach Gore Bay, in order to ascertain
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OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. 75 its continuity with the shore on which I landed on the 28th, I determined to 1821.run along the edge of the ice to the eastward, and to look for any opening Ji^Tthat might there be found practicable, rather than wait inactively in our pre-sent situation. Our course was, therefore, directed towards the openingsbefore observed to the eastward, where the land appeared to be broken intoseveral islands. As we approached these, which I named after The RightHonourable William Sturges Bourne, we found that they presented at leastfour openings, all of which appeared navigable but for the ice which nowchoked the three northern ones. The other channel, which is the widest,was however quite clear ; we therefore hauled up for it, and discovered soonafter to the southward an opening into the Frozen Strait, thus determin-ing the insularity of a large portion of its north-eastern shore, which I namedafter the Right Honourable Nicholas Vansittart, Chancellor of the Exche-qu

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