rreliminary Ch apter. 



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(3) LAND EXPEDITIONS. 



1848-'49. — Sir John Richardson and Dr. Rae searched the coasts of North America hetAveen the 



Mackenzie and the Coppermine Rivers. 

 (Dr. Rae, under the Hudson Bay Company in 1846-'47, made a voyage of discovery from I'ort 



Churchill to the Gulf of Boothia, surveying the Gulf to Fury and llecla Strait on the ea.st 



and Lord Mayor's Bay of Sir James Ross on the west, determining there an isthmus.) 

 1849. — Dr. Rae reached Cape Krusenstern. 



1849-'51.— Lieut. W. J. S. Pulleu, from the Plover. (See table No. II for Boat Expedition.) 

 1851.— Dr. Rae: coasts of WoUastou Island and east coast of Victoria Land to lat. 70° N., long. 



101° W. 

 1853-'54.— Dr. Rae : coasts of Boothia Isthmus; obtained relics of Franklin's Expedition Crewarded 



by vote of Parliament). 

 1855.— J. Anderson and J. G. Stewart: west coast of Adelaide Peninsula. 



