2 5 o SCIENTIFIC APPARATUS. 



explorers a reward of ^5,000. At the western extreme of Mel- 

 ville Island, Parry was stopped by thick and impenetrable ice ; 

 but he saw land to the south, which was named Banks Land. In 

 n, 14. chart his second voyage, which extended over two winters 



discoveries. (1821-23), Parry proceeded in the direction of Hud- 



1819-20. 



( A -) son's Bay, and discovered the " Hecla and Fury Strait," 



Farry'sTdis- connecting Hudson's Bay with Prince Regent's Inlet. 

 Second' In the third voyage, of 1824-25, the track of the first 



voyage. 



1821-23. (A.) voyage was followed ; but the season was very un- 

 favourable. Parry was obliged to winter at Port Bowen, on 

 the east coast of Prince Regent's Inlet. In the following season 

 one of his vessels (the Fury) was forced on shore and lost, and 

 he returned without any geographical result. 



11. Franklin, Richardson, and Back, in their wonderful land 

 journeys, were tracing the coast line of Arctic America, while 

 Parry made his attempts by sea. In 1819-22 they explored 

 from the mouth of the Coppermine eastward to Cape Turnagain, 

 and in 1825-26 their discoveries extended westward from "the 

 mouth of the Mackenzie to Return Reef. In the year 1825 a 

 great combined effort to achieve the North West Passage was 

 planned. Parry was to have proceeded westward from Baffin's 

 Bay, Captain Beechey, in the Blossom, was sent to meet him 

 from Behring Strait, while Franklin formed a link, as it were, 

 between the two. Parry's voyage, as we have seen, was a failure. 

 Franklin, approaching Beechey from the Mackenzie river, only got 

 as far as the Return Reef. Beechey himself discovered the portion 

 of the North American coast from the Icy Cape of Captain Cook to 

 Point Barrow. With these attempts in 1825-26 the Government 

 expeditions by Baffin's Bay ceased until Franklin sailed in 1845. 



12. Meanwhile, exploring work had proceeded to the east of 

 Greenland. In June 1822 Captain Scoresby forced his way 

 through the ice-floes which encumber the approach to land, and 

 discovered the east coast of Greenland from 75 N. down to 

 69 N. ; and in 1823 Captain Clavering also reached the east 



