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purser, and Halse the clerk, each continued, as did 

 Allison and Crawford, the Greenland master and 

 mate, in the service, and aboard the Fury. She 

 had also four midshipmen : two new ones, John 

 Henderson and F. R. M. Crozier ; besides Ross 

 and Bushnan, who had served in the preceding 

 voyage. 



Commander Parry observing on the late expedi- 

 tion a large inlet, not less than ten leagues wide at 

 its mouth, opening out on the southern coast of 

 Barrow's Strait, and extending southerly, with an 

 inclination to the westward, ran the ships into it, 

 and continued to the southward about one hundred 

 and twenty miles. The soundings were found to be 

 two hundred fathoms and upwards. The closeness 

 of the ice, however, to the south-west induced him 

 to return to the northward ; but his impression was 

 that this strait might lead to the coast of America, 

 and that the east and west lands which enclose it 

 were probably islands : and he says, " On an inspec- 

 tion of the charts, I think it will also appear proba- 

 ble, that a communication will one day be found to 

 exist between this inlet and Hudson's Bay, either 

 through the broad and unexplored channel called 

 Sir Thomas Roe's Welcome, or through Repulse 

 Bay, which has not yet been satisfactorily examined. 

 It is also probable that a channel will be found to 

 exist between the western land and the northern 

 coast of America." 



