PEE FACE. 



In order that the object, and a few other 

 particulars, of my voyage towards Kepulse 

 Bay, may be fully understood to my readers, 

 I venture to solicit their attention to a 

 short preface, which is intended to explain 

 such circumstances as are essential to those 

 who do me the honour of perusing my 

 journal. 



It may be remembered that in Captain 

 Parry's second, or last, voyage, sufficient 

 reasons are advanced, to favour the suppo- 

 sition that a Western portion of the Polar 

 Sea, lies at no great distance across Mel- 

 ville Peninsula from Repulse Bay, and that 



