i^otice of Ca'ptaiii Voyage (f JbiscoWfy. 14}t 
that, from various untoward circumstances, several of the Sounds 
had not been thoroughly examined ; and that although much 
important information resulted from Captain Ross’s investiga- 
/ tion, still the grand object of the expedition remained unaccom- 
plished. The learned all over Europe now took a great inte- 
rest in the solution of this problem, in regard to the passage 
from Baffin’s Bay into the Polar Sea, and the enlightened go- 
vernment of this country having the same feelings immediately 
Ordered another expedition to be prepared. 
Two vessels, the Hecla and Griper % were selected and pro- 
vided with every comfort and convenience for the crews, who, it 
was supposed, might be obliged to winter in the polar regions. 
The command was given to Lieutenant (now Captain) Parry, a 
young, active, fearless, intelligent, and accomplished officer, who 
tras accompanied by Messrs Liddon, Beechy, and other officers, 
admirably fitted for the bold and dangerous enterprize on which 
they were about to embark. They were furnished with the best in- 
struments for astronomical, meteorological, hydrographical, and 
magnetical observations ; and, we doubt not, were also amply 
provided with every means for collecting and preserving various 
objects of natural history. Meteorologists expected from this 
expedition numerous important details in regard to the climates 
of regions hitherto but rarely visited, or which had not before 
been seen by any civilized beings ; and philosophers paused in 
their speculations and calculations in regard to the magnetic 
poles and meridians, until the results of the various and im- 
portant observations on the magnetism of the earth, which 
were to be made in regions where both theory and former ex- 
perience had placed so many of the most interesting and import- 
ant magnetical phenomena, should be made known. The hy- 
drographer, too, anticipated the confirmation of many specula- 
tive views, and numerous additional facts in regard to the wa- 
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* As the ships of this successful expedition have only but just returned, very 
little is kno'u’^n in regard to their discoveries and observations, and therefore we once 
intended delaying the insertion of any notice of it in our present Number. But the 
wish of the public for some account, however imperfect, of the discoveries made by 
Captain Parry, is, we find, so pressing, that we have been induced to collect, fron^ 
various sources, many of the particulars in this relation. 
