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CONTENTS. 



Preface . 



CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Cause of the renewal of the search for a North-west Passage 

 from the Atlantic to the Pacific . . . Page 1 



CHAPTER II. 



COMMANDER JOHN ROSS, 



In the Isabella and Alexander — Proceeded up Davis's Strait and 

 Baffin's Bay into Lancaster Sound, and returned . 19 



CHAPTER III. 



CAPTAIN DAVID BUCHAN, 

 With the Dorothea and Trent — Towards the North Pole — 

 Reached the northern part of Spitzbergen — Ships damaged in 

 the Ice, and returned ...... 56 



CHAPTER IV. 



LIEUTENANT PARRY'S FIRST VOYAGE, 

 With the Hecla and Griper— Proceeded up Davis's Strait and 

 into Baffin's Bay, crossed over to Lancaster Sound, Regent's 

 Inlet, through Barrow's Strait, and to Melville Island 76 



