MACKENZIE— FRANKLIN. 135 



May. 



13. Water only 2j miles from Point Harrow. Loose ice on that day 

 moving slowly to the southward. Water Sky seen all the month. 



June, 



All June a Water Sky observed. 



July. 



10. Open water at Point Barrow. 



15. Ship free from ice. 



18. General break tip. 



23. Plover cleared the pack-ice off Wainwright Inlet. 



A ugust. 



19. Plover sailed from Port Clarence to Point Barrow without being in any 

 way impeded by the ice. 



30. Sailed South from Point Barrow. 



The above notes, which show the prevalence of open water in the vicinity 

 of Point Barrow, where H.M.S. Plover, Commander Rochfort Maguire, 

 wintered in 1852-3-4, are copied from that vessel's log-book. 



4th March, 1875. Thomas A. Hull. 



2.— A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE EXPLORATION OF THE 



POLAR SEA 



Between Point Barrow and the Eiver Mackenzie, including the Voyages 

 of the Investigator and Enterprise to Banks Land. 



Voyage of Mackenzie to the Polar Sea, 1789. — Sir A. Mackenzie, 

 attended by a German, four Canadians, and three Indians, together 

 with two Canadian and two Indian women, left Fort Chipewyan 

 on June 3rd, 1789, in four birch-bark canoes. The Slave Lake 

 was reached on the 9th, where they had to remain six days to 

 enable the ice to give way. They then entered at the west end of 

 the lake the river which now bears the name of Mackenzie, and 

 eventually reached the Great Northern < Icean on the 15th of July. 

 Returning by the same route, the party regained Fort Chipewyan 

 on September 12th. 



Captain Franklin's Second Voyage, 1825-2(3. — Three boats were 

 built at Woolwich for this expedition, one of which was 26 feet, 

 and the two others 24 feet long, and a small vessel, '.» feet long, 

 4 feet 4 inches wide, which weighed only 85 lbs., ami could be 

 made up in live or six parcels. These wire lor warded to York 

 Factory in 1824. 



