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this purpose as Prince Regent's Inlet." And he 

 repeats, in the voyage now under consideration, 

 " to that point therefore I can, in the present state 

 of our knowledge, have no hesitation in still recom- 

 mending that any future attempt should be 

 directed." His advice was followed, and a second 

 ship was left behind. A third, it is to be hoped, 

 will never again attempt this vile inlet, even al- 

 though it has since been ascertained, from another 

 quarter, that its waters do communicate with the 

 western portion of the Polar Sea ; such communi- 

 cation, however, gives no encouragement for ships 

 of any size to make the trial of a passage into the 

 Polar Sea by this route ; but more of this hereafter. 

 An indifferent person, who has but carelessly 

 glanced over the three expeditions, or another who 

 has studied and taken an interest in the subject, 

 would most probably come to a different opinion 

 with Captain Parry ; and be disposed to think that, 

 in any further search for a north-west passage, the 

 Strait of the Fury and Hecla, and the Prince Re- 

 gent's Inlet, should equally be avoided, for, leading 

 into one another, they may be considered as one 

 and the same thing, and alike unfavourable to safe 

 navigation. The additional encouragement which 

 Parry says has been afforded by the favourable ap- 

 pearances of a navigable sea, near the south-western 

 extremity of Prince Regent's Inlet, if it had any 

 existence beyond appearances, might certainly lead 



