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(R a o s 8 f ' l8 ^' At tlie same time Mr - Penn y> a whaling captain, 



* n comman d of two brigs, examined both shores of 

 ricaf^ 6 " Wellington Channel with sledging-parties, and the 



veteran, Sir John Rcss, in the little Felix, sent a 

 party, under Captain Phillips, across Cornwallis Island. 



19. In 1851 a private expedition under Mr. Kennedy and 

 Lieutenant Bellot, in the Prince Albert schooner, wintered in 

 Batty Bay, on the east coast of North Somerset, and discovered 

 the strait, afterwards called Bellot Strait, which separates North 

 Somerset from Boothia. The northern point of Boothia, on the 

 south shore of this strait, was thus discovered to be the northern 

 extremity of the continent of America. 



20. In 1852 the last Government searching expedition sailed, 

 consisting of the Assistance, commanded by Sir Edward Belcher, 

 the Resolute under Captain Kellett, the Pioneer and Intrepid, 

 and the North Star as a depot-ship at Beechey Island. 

 Sherard Osborn, M'Clintock, Mecham, and Vesey Hamilton 

 of the former expedition, were also in that of 1852-54, during 

 which M'Clintock and Mecham performed the most wonderful 

 feats in Arctic sledge-travelling on record. M'Clintock discovered 

 the northern shores of Melville and Prince Patrick Islands, and 

 he was the first to find the breeding-place of the ivory gull. 

 Mecham discovered Eglinton Island, with the southern and 

 western shores of Prince Patrick Land. Vesey Hamilton was the 

 discoverer of the northern extreme of Sabine Land, and of Vesey 

 Hamilton and Markham Islands, lying far out in the polar sea. 

 Sherard Osborn and Richards explored the northern sides of 

 Bathurst and Cornwallis Islands. The chief practical result of 

 this expedition was the relief of the Investigator, which enabled 

 Captain M'Clure and his officers to make the North West 

 Passage. 



21. In 1852 Captain Inglefield went for a summer cruise in the 

 28. chart of little steamer Isabel, and made some surveys which im 



Baffin'sBay, 



with ingle- proved the chart of Baffin's Bay. Smith Sound was 



