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coast, delineating it from 76 to 72, and enabled Captain Sabine 

 to swing his pendulums at a remote and almost inaccessible 

 16. MS. spot. Parry's memorable attempt to reach the Pole, by 



chart of the 1-11 



north of boats and sledges, from Spitzbergen, was made in 1827, 



Spitzber- 



gen, drawn when he attained the highest latitude that civilised 



by 1< ostcr. 



( A -) man has yet been known to have reached, namely, 82 



45' N. In 1829 the Danish Captain Graah explored the east 

 coast of Greenland from Cape Farewell to 65 18', where he 

 was stopped by an insurmountable barrier of ice, and there is 

 still a wide unknown gap on* this east coast, between the furthest 

 points of Scoresby and Graah. Captain Graah also made a 

 survey of part of the west coast of Greenland. 



Graah's ^ ^ e vo ^ a S e ^ Sir John Ross, and his nephew, 

 charts of Commander James C. Ross, was commenced in 1829 



Greenland. 



ap ^ n tlie little Victor y' Tne 7 proceeded down Prince 

 Re ent ' s Inlet beyond the point reached by Parry, 

 and discovered the land called Boothia Felix. In land 

 Monet's journeys, James Ross explored both the eastern and 

 western shores of this land, and the northern coast 

 of King William Island ; but the great event of this 



f D f* O % 



expedition was the discovery by James Ross of the 

 position of the North Magnetic Pole in 1831. The Rosses 

 were absent from 1829 to 1833, and in the latter year the ex- 

 plorers, having abandoned their vessel, were picked up by a 

 whaler in Lancaster Sound, Captain Back had, in 1833, under- 

 taken a land journey in search of the Rosses, when he dis- 

 covered the course of the Great Fish River, and its mouth 

 in the Arctic Sea. Between 1837 and 1839 Messrs. Dease 

 and Simpson almost completed the delineation of the coast of 

 Arctic America. They connected the work of Beechey and 

 2<>. ) Simp- Franklin, between Point Barrow and Return Reef, and 

 from Point explored the coast as far as Cape Herschel on King 



Barrow to 



Return William Island, within a short distance of the position 



-Reef. 



(R.G.S.) reached by James Ross at Point Victory. Simpson alsa 



