SECOND JOURNEY, 



tyc. <3fC. 



FROM THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. 



It is unnecessary to follow Captain Franklin 

 and his party through the numerous ob- 

 structions and difficulties they encountered 

 in this second journey, sometimes hurried 

 away with, and sometimes struggling against, 

 the streams of rivers, and dragging their 

 boats and baggage across the portages which 

 separate the waters, or which were crossed 

 to avoid dangerous or impracticable rapids ; 

 still less necessary is it to enter into any 

 details of the journey over a large portion 

 of North America, which has already been 

 described in the narrative of the former 

 Expedition. No portion of this country is 



