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the Great Fish River ; Mount Barrow between the Coppermine 

 and the McKenzie River '■ Barrow Bay in Parry Islands ; Barrow 

 Island, Barrow River and Point Barrow are instances. Parry, 

 Richardson, Ross, Beechy, Back, Belcher, and Kane were the 

 givers. There is a Barrow Bay in Corea and a Barrow Bay off 

 the north west coast of Australia. 



Sir John Barrow, in whose honor these many place-names 

 were bestowed, was an ardent advocate of Arctic explorations. 

 He wrote a great deal in favor of further investigation, believing 

 that if a passage were found it would be of immense service to 

 Great Britain in her commerce with India. He succeeded in arous- 

 ing public interest in the resumption of efforts to solve the 

 problem. 



Parry's voyages and Franklin's followed, Barrow cheering 

 them on ; his position as Secretary of the Admiralty Board — a 

 position he occupied for forty years under eleven first lyords of 

 the Admiralty, the esteemed confidence of all of whom he held as 

 well as that of King William IV — enabling him to lend a help- 

 ing hand. Before he became Secretary, he was emploj'^ed to 

 settle the' Government of the Cape of Good Hope, and published 

 two volumes on that important acquisition, whose name has been 

 so prominently before the Canadian public of late. The perusal 

 of that work induced lyord Melville to appoint him Secretary of 

 the Admiralty, and thus to give him a position where he could 

 exercise strong influence in favor of Arctic exploration. When 

 our boys landed in Cape Town a little while ago, they landed in 

 a colon}' that had been established by the man whose memorial 

 tablets are scattered all over the Canadian District of Franklin. 



Sir John Barrow — he received his baronetcy for his work in 

 connection with Arctic exploration, like so man}^ others knighted 

 for service in the Arctic regions of Canada — Sir John Barrow 

 used his great influence in a practical manner ; for by reason of 

 his efforts the Parliament of Great Britain in 1818 passed an act 

 for the promotion of polar discovery, by the terms of which a re- 

 ward of ^20,000 sterling was offered for making a North West 

 Passage and of ^5,000 for reaching latitude 89° north, while the 

 Commissioners of lyOngitude were empowered to award propor- 

 tionate sums to those who might achieve certain portions of such 

 discoveries. Barrow lost no time in securing four vessels, two 



