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'HETHEB 61* net it were right for Government &j) 

 despatch uiis ezpediticn cf 1845, it was undoub'j- 

 -ight, wher. thai expedition was felt to be in peril 

 of destruction, ihai svery effort should be made to rsscu3 

 the brs.73 men oi wli3_n it was ccnipcsec" 1 . 



And nobly was uhs claty fulfilled. From 1848, when. 

 fears first began to be entertained for the safety c~2 

 Franklin's crews, seventeen different attempts have been 

 made to save them,, and, when rescue seemed all bu^ 

 Jhcpeless, to ascertain at least their fate. 



The melancholy knowledge has at last been gained, 

 ,nd we propose briefly to repeat ths story, than whiek 

 W3 know nans -XLCO c/OBcSung 7.31 Jlio history of 



