A Voyage of Discovery: Made Under the Orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty's Ships Isabella and Alexander, for the Purpose of Exploring Baffin's Bay, and Enquiring Into the Probability of a North-west Passage, Volume 2Strahan and Spottiswoode, 1819 Author's journal of 1818 expedition in search of Northwest Passage. Includes information on ice conditions, and descriptions of Polar Eskimos of Cape York region and of extensive stretches of red snow seen there. Also contains record of personnel, equipment, all orders, and work carried out. |
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A Voyage of Discovery: Made Under the Orders of the Admiralty, in ..., Volume 2 Sir John Ross Volledige weergave - 1819 |
A Voyage of Discovery: Made Under the Orders of the Admiralty, in ..., Volume 2 Sir John Ross Volledige weergave - 1819 |
A Voyage of Discovery: Made Under the Orders of the Admiralty, in ..., Volume 2 Sir John Ross Volledige weergave - 1819 |
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Alexander Alexander's altitude appeared Arctic ascertained Aurora azimuth Baffin's Bay bird boat breeze calm Cape Farewell Cape Kater Captain Ross chalcedony chart chronometers claystone cloudy coast colour compass course Davis day-light depth deviation direction discovered distance Ditto east eastward eight fathoms feet fore four Genus gneiss granite Gull Hare Island horizon hundred hygrometer iceberg inches INDEX UPPERMOST inlet instrument Isabella Island Lancaster Bay land latitude Leach leagues LEPUS Lieutenant Parry Long longitude magnetic miles Mount Raleigh mountains needle noon northward obtained passed pitchstone plumage point of change Possession Bay Prince Regent's Bay Resolution Island rock sail Salmon Islands sand schist seen Sept Shetland ship ship's head shore shot snow soft mud sounded southward Species specimens Spirit Levels steered stones stood Strait tack tail taken temperature thick tion transit bearing true variation voyage weather westward whales wind
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Pagina 52 - You are hereby required and directed to proceed with the said two sloops directly to the Cape of Good Hope, unless you shall judge it necessary to stop at Madeira, the Cape de Verd or Canary Islands, to take in wine for the use of their companies; in which case you are at liberty to do so...
Pagina 66 - ... upon your arrival in England, you are immediately to repair to this office in order to lay before us a full account of your proceedings in the whole course of your voyage...
Pagina 60 - ... find it expedient to resort to this measure, and you should meet with any inhabitants, either Esquimaux or Indians, near the place where you winter, you are to endeavour by every means in your power to cultivate a friendship with them, by making them presents of such articles as you may be supplied with, and which may be useful or agreeable to them ; you will, however, take care not to suffer yourself to be surprised by them, but use every precaution, and be constantly on your guard against any...
Pagina 62 - ... force ; you will endeavour to ascertain how far the needle may be affected by the atmospherical electricity, and what effect may be produced on the electrometer and magnetic needle on the appearance of the Aurora Borealis.
Pagina 56 - ... case, it may be advisable to stand well to the northward, before you edge away to the westward, in order to get a good offing, in rounding the north-east point of the continent of America ; whose latitude has not been ascertained, but which, if a conjecture may be hazarded, from what is known from the northern coast of that continent, may perhaps be found in or about the 72d degree of latitude.
Pagina 54 - This current, if it be considerable, can scarcely be altogether supplied by streams from the land, or the melting of ice; there would, therefore, seem reason to suppose, that it may be derived from an open sea ; in which case, Baffin's Bay cannot be bounded by land, as our charts generally represent it, but must communicate with the Arctic Ocean. ' In passing up the Strait, if such a current should be discovered, it will be of the greatest importance to you, in pointing out that part of the Strait...
Pagina 51 - His royal Highness the Prince Regent having signified his pleasure to Viscount Melville, that an attempt should be made to discover a northern passage by sea, from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean...
Pagina 174 - Wollaston, who found it to contain from three tofaur per cent, of nickel ; and who remarks, " that it appears to differ in no respect from those masses of which so many have now been found on various parts of the surface of the earth ; and which, in some few instances from tradition, and in all, from the analysis, appear to be of meteoric origin.
Pagina 60 - If, however, all your endeavours should fail in getting so far to the westward as to enable you to double the north-eastern extremity of America, (round which these Instructions have hitherto supposed a passage to exist,) you are, in that case, to use all the means in your power, by keeping to the northward and eastward, to ascertain to what extent you can proceed along the western coast of Old Greenland : and whether there is any reason to suppose that it forms a part of the continent of America...
Pagina 54 - From the best information we have been able to obtain, it would appear that a current of some force runs from the northward, towards the upper part of Davis...