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W. Baffin in 1616, but not now believed" * Except the mouths 

 of the Mackenzie and Coppermine Rivers, the whole coast of 

 Arctic America, from the Icy Cape of Cook to Hudson's Bay, 

 was an absolute blank, as well as the whole space to the north- 

 ward as far as the Pole. 



9. In 1818, Captain John Ross, with Lieutenant Parry as his 

 second in command, sailed on the first scientific Arctic voyage of 

 this century. He followed the track of Baffin almost exactly, 

 and thus vindicated the memory of that great discoverer, 

 replacing all the sounds, headlands, and islands of Baffin f on 

 the chart, and delineating the whole outline of Baffin's Bay. He 

 made an error in supposing that the so-called sounds of Baffin 

 were merely bays, an error which should now be forgotten, while 

 it is remembered that he opened the way to a lucrative whale 

 fishery, and invented an appliance by which he brought 

 samples at depths of a thousand fathoms. It was in 

 Baffin's Bay, when Captain Ross brought up the beautiful 



11. chart of cisterophytoii in 73 30' N. latitude, that deep-sea sounding 



Baffin'st'ay, . 



by j. ROSS, and dredging was commenced. A new Arctic bird, the 



1819. (A.) 



12. MS. Sabine gull, -was also discovered during this voyage. 

 trade of In the same year Captain Buchan and Lieutenant 

 Botfhan, Franklin, with Beechey and Back serving under them, 

 BeecSe/(A.) led an expedition to the edge of the polar pack north 

 of Spitzbergen. 



10. In 1819 Lieutenant Parry sailed on what was, on the 

 whole, the most successful of all the Arctic voyages. Entering 

 the Lancaster Sound of Baffin, he discovered Barrow Strait, 

 Prince Regent's Ilet, and the east and north coasts of North 

 Somerset, the entrance of Wellington Channel, and the south 

 shores of North Devon, Cornwallis, Bathurst, Byam Martin and 

 Melville Islands, beyond that noth meridian which secured the 



* In Barrington's " Possibility of approaching the North Pole." 

 f Wolstenholme Sound, Whale Sound, Smith Sound, Jones Sound, 

 Lancaster Sound, Hakluyt Island, Gary Islands, Cape Dudley Digges. 



