A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY 



I 



OF 



VOYAGES INTO THE ARCTIC REGIONS; 



UNDERTAKEN CHIEFLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF 



DISCOVERING A NORTH-EAST, NORTH-WEST, 



OR 



POLAR PASSAGE 



BETWEEN THE 



ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC: 



TBOM THE EARLIEST PERIODS OF SCANDINATIAN NAVIGATION, TO THE 



DEPARTURE OF THE 



RECENT EXPEDITIONS, 



UNDER THE ORDERS OF 



CAPTAINS ROSS AND BUCHAN. 



" How shall I admire your heroicke courage, ye marine worthies, beyond all names of 

 worthiness ! that neyther dread so long eyther presence or absence of the suune ; nor those 

 foggy mysts, tempestuous winds, cold blasts, snowes and hayle in the ayre : nor the un- 

 equall seas, which might amaze the hearer, and aniate the beholder, where the Tritons and 

 Neptune's, selfe would quake with chilling feare, to behold such monstrous icie ilands, rent- 

 ing themselves with terrour of their owne massines, and disdayning otherwise both the sea's 

 sovereigntie, and the sunne's hottest \aolence, mustering themselves in those watery plaiues 

 where they hold a continual civill warre, and rushing one upon another, make windes and 

 waves give backe ; seeming to rent the eares of others, while they rent themselves with, 

 crashing and splitting their congealed armours." — Purchas. 



By JOHN BARROW, F.R. S. 



LONDON: 



JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 



1818. 



