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far as Sir James Lancaster's Sound.* Captain John 

 Ross, wliose voyage confirms Baffin's former dis- 

 coveries, affirms that he proved the connection of 

 land in Baffin's Bay, against which, many persons 

 who accompanied the same expedition, openly de- 

 clared a contrary opinion, (the commander of the 

 other ship, Lieutenant W. E. Parry, the learned 

 Captain E. Sabine, the surgeon A. Fisher, &c.) 

 and the often disputed question remains still un- 

 decided.! There remains, in every case, the coast 

 from the entrance of Cumberland Strait to Re- 

 pulse Bay still to be examined. 



But whether the passage in the favourable season 

 can be found open and free from ice, whether the 

 north coast of America, in its whole extent, and 

 with its promontories, if there are any such, can 



* On the other side, whales, which have been harpooned near 

 Spitsbergen, and which were found in the same season in Davis' 

 Strait, as well as other circumstances, have given weight to the 

 conjecture that Greenland is an island, or a group of islands. 



■f John Ross, Voyage of Discovery, &c. London, 1819. 



The Quarterly Review, May 1819, p. 313., blames Ross for 

 not having properly examined the promising Lancaster Sound. 

 ** There occur unfortunate moments in the history of a man's 

 life, when he is himself unable to account for his actions, and 

 the moment of putting about the Isabella would appear to be 

 one of them." p. 351. 



Modern Voyages and Travels. London, 1819. The Journal 

 of Mr. Fisher. 



Blackwood's Magazine, December 1818. 



Captain E. Sabine. Journal of Literature, &c. April 1819. 



The same. Remarks on the late Voyage of Discovery. 



. The Explanation of Captain Ross, &c. 



