Notice of Captain Parry's Voyage of Discovery, 155 
For the urgent and satisfactory reasons just stated, the fur- 
ther progress of the expedition was put an end to for the present, 
and although land was seen to the south-west in Longitude 118°, 
no accurate opinion could be formed as to its nature or extent. 
It is, we observe, named in the copy of the Admiralty Chart, 
engraved for this number of the Journal, Baiiks Land^ in 
honour, we presume, of the late illustrious President of the 
Royal Society. 
The expedition now returned eastward through the Polar 
Sea and Barrow's Straits, into Sir James Lancaster's Sound, 
thence into Baffin's Bay, and, by the usual track homewards, 
arrived in safety, and the crew in perfect health, in England, 
during the course of the month of November. 
Science will, we have no doubt, profit much by this expe- 
dition, and although it was locked up for the greater part of the 
time in ice, and enveloped in darkness, yet great activity and 
skill in a totally new field could not be employed but in a man- 
ner most advantageous to the high interests of philosophy. 
We have heard many interesting reports of the meteorological 
and magnetical observations, and the geographer must already 
see that the way to the Polar Sea has been discovered^ — ^that 
Prince Regent's Inlet is very probably one of the passages to 
Hudson’s Bay from the Polar Sea,^that the west side of Baf- 
fin's Bay and Davis’ Straits are bounded, not by the mainland 
of America, but more likely by a chain of islands, — ^that West 
Greenland itself is not a portion of the Continent of America, 
but a great island,— -that the north coast of the Continent of 
America exten4s from Icy Cape by the sea of Hearne, down 
to Repulse Bay, or some other inlet, into Hudson's Bay ; an’d 
that to the north of this line of coast lie the islands discovered 
by the expedition, and probably many others, whose exami- 
nation is reserved for future navigators, who may follow the 
tr^ck of Parry and his intrepid companions. 
the ice and the land. On their return up Barrow’s Strait and Lancaster’s Sound, 
the expedition reaped the benefit of this discovery, sailing on the north side, while, 
the south side was blocked up. From Hearne and Mackenzie having reported an 
open sea on the north coast of America, we would be inclined to suppose, that the 
heat of the American land loosens the ice, and that, by the prevalence of southerly 
winds, it is blown off the land, and driven northward, where it is dispersed by cur^ 
rents. 
