CHAPTER X 

 BOOTHIA 



Christopher Middleton Wager River Repulse Bay Parry's second north- 

 west voyage Melville Peninsula Fury and Hecla Strait John Ross's 

 second Arctic voyage Introduces steam navigation into the Arctic regions 

 The whaler John Ross misses the North- West Passage Snow houses- 

 Eskimo geographers James Clark Ross finds the Magnetic North Pole 

 Lyon in the Griper Back in the Terror Rae's journey round Committee 

 Bay Sir John Franklin's last voyage Kennedy and Bellot Discovery 

 of Bellot Strait Rae's journey in 1854 His Franklin discoveries 

 M'Clintock's voyage in the Fox Lady Franklin's instructions Captain 

 Charles Hall Frederick Schwatka Amundsen accomplishes the North- 

 West Passage. 



IN July, 1742, Christopher Middleton, working 

 northwards in Hudson Bay from Fort Churchill, 

 made his way up Rowe's Welcome and entered a deep 

 inlet apparently leading to the South Sea. Middleton 

 who gained his Fellowship of the Royal Society for 

 his variation observations at Fort Churchill, and was 

 the first to practise the modern method of finding 

 longitude by eight or ten different altitudes of the sun 

 or stars when near the prime vertical spent eighteen 

 days in the inlet observing the tides, and then, came to 

 the conclusion that it was an estuary ; and he named 

 it Wager River after Sir Charles Wager, who was First 

 Lord of the Admiralty when he began his voyage. 

 Proceeding north, he reached his Repulse Bay, and at 

 the north-east end of it saw Frozen Strait, as he called 

 it, stretching away along the north of Southampton 



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