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Prel'un hiaru C liapter. 



lias liad the discovery of the Nortliwest Passage as its direct object 

 His latest dispatch was dated, "Whale Fish Islands, west Coast of 

 Greenland. Jnlv VI, 1845." His ships Avere last seen Jul}^ 26, of 

 that year, by the whaler Prince of Wales — moored to an iceberg, lat. 

 74' AX' N., long. 66° 13' W. 



THE EXPEDITION. 



No tidings lia\nng been received from Franklin at the close of 

 nearly three years, Eelief expeditions began to be sent out from 

 England. The chief of these are stated in the following tables. The 

 lines of search and the chief localities examined in the hope of find- 

 ing tlie lost expedition may be traced on Circumpolar Map No. I. 

 (Pocket.) The tables have been aiTanged to show that the search for 

 Franklin was carried on by expeditions which, within about the same 

 periods, vi.sitcd the Northern coasts, some from Bering Straits and 

 oiImts jV<iin IJallinV llay. — supplemented by land explorations chiefly 

 al<in;_r the middle section of the Continent. The Private Expeditions 

 closed the .search f Table \) by McOlintock's voyage of the Fox. 



