Captain Franklin and Dr Richardson‘’s Arctic Eoc^eAiihn, 147^ 
of opening a trade with the company, who, on their part, have 
pushed their advanced posts to within three days’ march of the 
sea. These circumstances, combined with good accounts from 
the various districts^ of the supply of provisions, augur well for 
the success of Captain Franklin’s undertaking. The novel dis- 
play of good feeling on the part of the Esquimaux of those quar- 
ters towards the white people, (so different from what is recorded 
in a former number of this Journal ^,) may, perhaps, have origi-. 
nated in intelligence of Captain Parry’s or Captain Franklin’s 
visits having spread along the coast. We hope, that the influ- 
ence of the European visitors in these quarters, will for ever ter- 
minate the exterminating warfare betwixt the Esquimaux and 
Indians. Captain Franklin and Dr Richardson leave England 
in February next, to proceed by the way of New-York to Mac- 
kenzie’s River. Their course from New-York, will be by Lake 
Erie, Lake Huron, and Lake Superior to Fort-William ; and 
thence by the usual river navigation pursued by the fur traders 
through the Lake of the Woods, Lake Winnipeg, Athapescou 
Lake, and Great Slave Lake to Mackenzie’s River, which they 
hope to reach about the end of September, and to winter upon a 
tributary branch, which discharges the waters of Great Bear 
Lake. Much, we are confident, will be accomplished by these 
enterprising and distinguished travellers. We are also informed, 
that Captain Beechy has commissioned the Blossom, for the pur- 
pose of going out to meet Captains Parry and Franklin in 
Behring’s Straits. 
2 . — African Expedition under Denham and Clapperton> 
It is asserted in the public journals, that Dr Oudney’s papers 
had reached London. This statement, we regret to say, is in- 
correct, as we are informed that not a single paper has as yet 
been received, but instructions have been sent to our Consul at 
Tropoli, to make every possible exertion to obtain them, and 
Lord Bathurst has ordered him to dispatch a courier to Bor- 
nou for the express purpose. Major Denham, with a carpenter 
from Malta dock-yard, an extremely useful man, proceeds to the 
eastward, along the lake which they discovered ; and which, by 
* Vol. viii. pages 78. and 79. 
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