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CHAPTER V. 



VOYAGES OF NORTHERN DISCOVERY UNDERTAKEN 

 IN THE EARLY PART OF THE NINETEENTH 



CENTURY. 



Lieutenant Kotzebue — John Ross, David Buchan, Wil- 

 liam Edward Parry, and John Franklin, 



LIEUTENANT KOTZEBUE. 1815 tO 1818. 



The long protracted war, in which all the nations 

 of Europe were at different times involved, sus- 

 pended all attempts at northern discovery ; but no 

 sooner did the European world begin to feel the 

 blessings of peace, than the spirit of discovery 

 revived. Expeditions were sent forth to every 

 quarter of the globe ; and, to the honour of an 

 individual it ought to be mentioned that, at his 

 own cost, a ship was fitted out for the purpose of 

 ascertaining whether the sea, on the northern coast 

 of America, afforded a navigable passage between 

 the Pacific and Atlantic oceans : that individual 

 is the Russian Count RomanzofF. The vessel 



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