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long. 129° 44’ W., where, by this time, the United Company of 
the North-west and Hudson’s Bay have, in all probability, formed 
an establishment, and thus opened a direct communication be- 
tween the Atlantic and the Pacific, the whole way by water, with 
the exception of a very few miles across the high lands, which 
divide the sources of the rivers, and give them opposite direc- 
tions, 
Thus then it is obvious, that, as we have actual possession of 
the six degrees of coast usurped by Russia. in her recent mani- 
festo, her claim to this part is perfectly nugatory. Indeed, as 
we before observed, the assumption must have been made in 
utter ignorance of. the fact; which is the less surprising, as this 
part of the world remains, as yet, a complete blank on our best 
and latest charts.— Quarterly Rev. No. 52. 
ARCTIC EXPEDITION. 
On the 9th of March last, at six o’clock a.M., a countryman 
who was employed gathering sea-weed on the Irish shore, in 
the parish of Clonmauny, county of Donegal, found a bottle 
which had been thrown out by His Majesty’s ship Fury, Captain 
Parry, in lat. 62. 8. N., long. 62.27. W. The countryman, 
anxious to ascertain the contents of the bottle, conceiving it con- 
tained something which might be valuable to him, instantly 
broke it, and found a paper, on which was inserted the following 
in seven languages :— . 
‘¢ His Majesty’s ship Fury.—Set off July, 1821, lat. 62. 8, N. 
long. 62. 27. W. At one, P.M. moderate breezes, from the 
Northward, dull misty weather. Hecla in company. 
«6 W. Parry, Commander.” 
This paper he gave to Mr. Chichester, who immediately 
transmitted it to the Admiralty. The shore where the bottle was 
found is in lat. 55, 15. N., long. 7. 28 W. 
DISCOVERIES IN EGYPT. 
M. Acerbi, the Editor of the Biblioteca Italiana, in the 
number for March, gives an extract of a letter from M. Zuccoli, 
dated Sennaar, Nov. 3, 1821. 
M. Z. accompanies the army of Ibrahim Pacha, son of the 
Viceroy of Egypt, as officer of engineers, and is charged with 
the geographical survey of the countries through which it passes. 
When the letter was dispatched the army was in 13° north lati- 
tude, and was to advance to the 7th degree. In that variable 
climate a heat from 31 to 35 degrees of Reaumur by day, with 
a coolness of 15° by night, causes frequent diseases. 
M. Zuccoli has made a survey of the Nile from Alexandria to 
Sennaar. He counted 180 more or less considerable cataracts 
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