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MQUGYLY REVIEW OF LITERATURE, DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN. 
FPR of EX RrEV by dde fo MED RE 
vebylofa Novth: West Pussuge fromthe Are « 
lantie dothe Patifid 3: performed-in the Years 
1824-25, in ther Hecla, and Fury, under. the 
Or. a Capt, W. E. Parry; 1826.— 
Th Het ess successful than either of Capt. 
preteditiz voyages,» this is by no 
médris!the most discouragings© >The failure 
wa# the consequence dian aceident not atall 
outjof the course of calculation. . Such ure 
the perjls of the icy seas, that scarcely 
cotta the fost confiding speculator, or the 
mst Skilfal and dautless navigator, anti+ 
cipate “safety three) successive \ voyages. 
Eyery fresh attempt, however, adds to the 
chances of, safety, and to the probabilities 
of Hianiy euvecetine: of at least of ascer- 
taining the ‘non-existeice uf a passage, by 
adding to our experience, and thus teaching 
us; to) guard smore.and «more, against the 
effects.of recurring perils. 
‘Those perils are mow better understood 
than ever; though we cannot help, with 
Capt.|Parry, ‘expressing ‘our admiration, 
accompanied with some little wonder, at 
the ysuceessful. daring of our old navigators 
two.centuries.ago. In, vessels of, five-and- 
twenty tons, of an ordinary construction, 
wit ho Specific provision and no particu- 
lar precaution, ‘Davies, Baffin’ and Hudson 
encountered these Seas, and surveyed these 
coasts,,with. an-aecuracy, which does, not 
ingest put our adventurers and ourysurveys 
to shame, but which may well check the 
stfong bent of the times to boast of the 
supttbrities of’ modern ‘sciente and of 
modefmintelligence.» Were these seas less 
ious in their days than in ours? They 
mig so. Seasons oecur of extraordinary 
sévérity, where even in lower latitudes the 
ice of ‘the winter is’ not’ melted by ‘the 
warmth: of the ensuing sunimer, and what 
accumulations, may not, the successive se- 
verities of many seasons in the course of 
two centuries have occasioned? We incline 
to the belief that these diflicultiés have 
aigniénted ; if not,’ either our superiorities 
arejmaginary, ‘or ollr seamen have degenc- 
L;;,and .we are. unwilling to concede 
mative, though doubtless we 
00 much of ourselves. 
té Party, iit this third’ Voyajre, ‘has not 
progressed towards ‘the grand object 
chig daboutsayfhes sammer of 11824 
appears to haye, been unusually siivrt and 
severe, and the season ‘was lost, or rather 
spent, in straining the vessels through the 
ice of Baffin’s Bay, and most extraordinary 
exertions, and machinery of extraordinary 
ower, were employed for that purpose. 
ey had only time to work into Pritce 
Regent’s Inlet, when they were obliged to 
establish themselves for the winter in Port 
Bowen, lat. 73° and long. 89°. In the fol- 
lowing summer, 1825, the vessels did not 
t afloat till the 20th July ; after sailing a 
M.M. New Series: —Vor, 11. No 10. 
“Few miles “back “along ‘the eastdtt” 
Por 
the inlet,” they crossed! ovér to the’ 
about forty miles, andy then ram /d Sif 
running it. can be, cajled—ywhere prerse 2 
struggle with, piles of old ice, ‘and the e¢on- 
gealings of new, almost every inch of the 
way—about seventy or eighty miles+when, 
on ‘the Ist -of August,’ the Piary ifinally 
stranded. .The floating, ice pressed upon 
her; as she lay upon the unyielding: bottom, 
and squeezed her till her timbers cracked ; 
and nothing but the extraordinary ae 
strengthenings of the vessel could h 
resisted the enormous “pressure fora ‘mo- 
ment. The whole of August, or at, léast 
till the 26th, was consumed. in lighteni 
the ship, and attempting to ‘heave her 
down,’ that is, in plain language, we sup- 
pose, to turn up her keel for the purpose 
of examining an@jrepairing. Such, how- 
ever, was the extent of the damage. she 
had received, that Capt.. Parry was 
finally obliged to abandon her; and as 
well from the lateness of the season, as 
because his own ship was burdened with a 
double crew, he deemed. it his wisest course 
to return to England, which he reached in 
safety the following October. he 
“The narrative is of a plain‘and respecta- 
ble character, but unusually meagre of inéi- 
dent. He has little to tell, save the wreck 
of the vessel, which he has not told before. 
The scenes are the same—noyelty is at an 
end. The mode of spending the winter 
was the great object of curiosity in the first 
narrative,’ and the intereourse with “the 
Esquimaux of the second. .Of the-first we 
have nothing new to learn—monthly mas- 
querades were the Jeading amusements— 
and Capt. Parry has judy vol 
repeating new details of an old’ charaéter ; 
and. of the Esquimaux he saw nothing. 1 
The health of the crews was,wonderh 
good, greatly to the credit of Capt..P: 
and of all concerned. They Just only two 
meii during the eighteen months) ‘one ba 
serofulous disorder, and the other by ‘an 
accident—a random fellow, we suppose, 
who seems to haye had two narrow escapes. 
Capt, Parry will go out again, it is ui - 
stood, in thenext spring, but by what route 
is unknown; he himself ‘is: still in? iy 
of Prince Regent's Inlet, to the southswest 
of the spot where the Fury was wrecked— 
clear water was_ observed as far as. the eye 
could reach. 
Notes of a Journey through France and 
Italy ; 1826.—These Notes have already 
appeared in the Morning Chronicle. The 
opinion entertained of them by the readers 
of that respectable print, ‘ suggested the 
idea,’ according to the preface, ‘of the 
present work; and, indeed, with a cireu- 
lation so contraeted, at least so limited to 
a particular party, as is that of the Morning 
ei the republication of any thing 
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