Journal of a Third Voyage for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage, from the Atlantic to the Pacific: Performed in the Years 1824-25, in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Fury, Under the Orders of Captain William E. Parry ...H. C. Carey and I. Lee, 1826 - 232 pàgines |
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Amherst Island appeared Arct Baffin's Bay Barrow River Barrow's Strait beach bergs bird body of ice breeze Brown in Parry's Cape Wilson Captain Hoppner Captain Parry circumstances coast colour considerable numbers distance eastward Expedition Fabr Fauna Grænl favourable feet floe Fury Fury's gale Gmel gneiss Greenland harbour hawsers Hecla Henry Parkyns Hoppner Hooker in Parry's Igloolik inches land Lath latitude Lieut limestone Linn longitude longitude by chronometers Lyon's Inlet magnetic masses Melville Melville Island Melville Peninsula miles morning Narrative Neill north of Cape North Somerset northward observed occasion occur officers Parry's 1st Voy Parry's 2d Voy Parry's First Voyage Parry's Second Voyage Plate Port Bowen Prince Regent's Inlet pumps remarkable rocks sail scarcely season seen Sherer ships shore snow southward species specimens strata Supp Temm temperature tion weather westward Whale Islands Whale-fish Islands whole wind Winter Island young ice Zool
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Pàgina 83 - I concluded, what, indeed, had long been a matter of probable conjecture, that Barrow's Strait was not permanently frozen during the winter. From the tops of the hills about Cape York, beyond which promontory Lieutenant Ross travelled, no appearance of ice could be distinguished...
Pàgina 227 - Baffin's Bay, and by the fossil wood of Melville Island, Cape York, and Byam Martin Island. 6. That the boulders or rolled blocks met with in different quarters, and in tracts distant from their original localities, afford evidence of the passage of water across them, and at a period subsequent to the deposition of the newest solid strata, namely, those of the tertiary class. 7. That nowhere are there...
Pàgina 67 - While Lieutenants Sherer and Ross, and myself, were admiring the extreme beauty of this phenomenon from the observatory, we all simultaneously uttered an exclamation of surprise at seeing a bright ray of the Aurora shoot suddenly downward from the general mass of light, and between us and the land, which was then distant only three thousand yards.
Pàgina 150 - ... that there must exist in the polar regions some general motion of the sea towards the west, causing the ice to set in that direction, when not impelled by contrary winds, or local and occasional Currents, until it butts against thos'e shores which are actually found to be most encumbered by it ;' and he offers a suggestion for the consideration of others, ' whether such a tendency of the sea may not have some connection with the motion of the earth on its axis?
Pàgina 67 - February, the aurora again appeared over the hills in a south direction, presenting a brilliant mass of light, very similar to that just described. The rolling motion of the light laterally was here also very striking, as well as the increase of its intensity thus occasioned. The light occupied horizontally about a point of the compass, and extended in height scarcely a degree above the land, which seemed, however, to conceal from us a part of the phenomenon. It was always evident enough that the...
Pàgina 148 - I have to acquaint you, for the information of their Lordships, that the expedition, the main object of which is to solve, if possible, the question of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, particularly by Prince Regent's Inlet, and which sailed from England in May, 1829...
Pàgina 125 - Every endeavour of ours to get her off, or if got off, to float her to any known place of safety, would be at once utterly hopeless in itself, and productive of extreme risk to our remaining ship.
Pàgina 228 - That the islands and lands described in tjie sketch exhibit the same general geognostical arrangements as occur in all other extensive tracts of country hitherto examined by the naturalist, — a fact...
Pàgina 62 - never had an invention a more complete and satisfactory triumph ; for to the last moment of our operations at sea did the compass indicate the true magnetic direction.
Pàgina 154 - Persevering in difficulty, unappalled by danger, and patient under distress, they scarcely ever use the language of complaint, much less that of despair ; and sometimes, when all human hope seems at its lowest ebb, they furnish the most beautiful examples of that firm reliance on a merciful and superintending Providence, which is the only rational source of true fortitude in man. Often, with their narratives impressed upon my mind, and surrounded by the very difficulties which they in their frail...