XXVI 



Prelim 'uiarij Chapter. 



Tlie Record in liriet'; — 



I. ( )t" Eiinlisli and American* explorations for tlie Northwest 

 Passage from tlie year 1818 to 1845, when Sir John Franklin's Expedi- 

 tion left England. 



II. Of the Franklin Relief Expeditions, English and American, 

 from 1848 to 1860, the year of Hall's First Expedition. 



TABLE No. I. 

 1. Xaral expeditions for discovering the Xorthicest Passage, 1818 /o 1845. 



Commanders. 



Vessels. Positions reached north and west. Year, 



I. Caj'i. ]•. liiKlian 



Lieut. John Franklin 



II. Cniiiiiiauili r John Eoss. 

 I.iiiit. W. E. Parry 



III. Liiiit. W. E. Pany 



Lieut. M. Liddon 



Dorothea . . 

 Trent 



> Long. 11" W.; 



lat. 80° 37' N- 



Isahella . .. |S Lancaster Sound; long. 84 W. ; 

 Alexander . ) lat. 76° 54' N. 



IV. rapt. W. E. Parry. 

 (apt. <;. r. Lyon .. 



V. Capt. W. E. Parry 



Comniandcrll. P. Hoppner.. .. 



VI. Cai-i. G. E. Lyou 



MI. Cai-t. I'. \V. iVediy 



Hecla . 

 Griper 



Fury . . 

 Hecla . 



Hecla . 



Fury 



VIII. (apt. .Jdhu Kotvs 



Li<iit. .J.'tiucM C. Kus-s. 



Gri])or 



Blossom 



Victory 



1 \ . C'upt. Cjforgi! I3a<k Terror 



f West coast of Melville Island;^ 

 i long. 113^48' 22" "W.; lat. I 



I 74c 47' 19" N. j 



fWhyte Inlet, Fury and Hecla ^ 

 I Strait; long. 84° 52' W,; lat. )> 



I 70° 12' N. J 



\ Prince Regent's Inlet; long. 92' ) 

 ^ 18' W. ; lat. 740 28' 13" N. ( 



^ Rowc's Welcome ; long. 89° 1' ) 

 ^ 44" W. ; lat. (55° 20' N. ( 



^ Bering's Straits to Point Bar- } 

 i row, 126 miles east of Icy Cape. 



fWest coast of Prince Regent's^ 

 j Inlet andofBoothia and north 

 I coast of King Willi.im's Land ; 

 long. 990 W. ; lat. 70^ 5' 

 [ 17" N. 



1818 



1818-'19 



1819-'20 



1831-'23 



Frozen Strait; long. 83° 40 

 lat. 05° 47' N. 



'W.;^ 



1824-'25 



1824 



1825-'28 



1829-'33 



1836-'37 



J ..1 wimc ciiriouH noticoA of /fnimcaM voyages for the Passage, made in 1753, 1754, 1772, 

 aud iM>««ibly Oil early ua Uuii}, mm the clo.se of this chapter. 



