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and so were Alexander Fisher, assistant-surgeon, 

 and James Hulse, clerk. 



There can be but one opinion as to the view in 

 which the report of Captain Ross was considered by 

 the Board of Admiralty, were it to be inferred only 

 from the instructions given to his successor, Lieut. 

 William Edward Parry ; in which the examination 

 of the great and open bay, Sir James Lancaster's 

 Sound, was ordered to be considered as the first 

 and most particular object of his voyage ; and, more- 

 over, not succeeding in that direction, to examine 

 Alderman Jones's Sound and that of Sir Thomas 

 Smith, neither of which had been examined, nor even 

 entered, by the commander of the late expedition. 



The two ships ordered to be fitted out for this 

 expedition — the Hecla, a bomb of 375 tons, and 

 the Griper, a gun-brig — were taken into dock for 

 repairs and strengthening, and the Griper to be 

 raised, as early as the middle of December : and 

 on the 16th January, 1819, Lieutenant Parry 

 was appointed to the command of the former and 

 of the expedition, and Lieutenant Liddon to the 

 latter. The subordinate Lieutenants of the two 

 ships were, F. W. Beechey to the Hecla, and H. P. 

 Hoppner to the Griper, both having served on the 

 late expedition; five Midshipmen to the former 

 ship, Nias, Dealy, Palmer, Clarke Ross, Bushnan ; 

 and to the latter three, Reid, Skene, and Nelson 

 Griffiths. Captain Sabine, of the Royal Artillery, 



