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parry’s first voyage. 
CHAPTER III. 
THE LAST VOYAGE OF CAPTAIN ROSS, PERFORMED tN THE YEARS 1829 - 30 - 31-32 & 32 * 
The failure of Capt. Ross’ expedition, so far from discouraging 
the British government appeared to have given it a new impulse, 
and two vessels the Hecla and the Griper, the first commanded 
by Lieut. Parry, and the latter by Lieut. Liddon, were prepared 
for a new expedition. The ships were victualled for two years, 
with all the strength that naval architecture could devise, and 
with the most liberal regard to the comfort of the crew, the 
majority of whom had been employed on the expedition of Capt. 
Ross. It was the opinion of Lieut. Parry, as well as several of 
the officers who had accompanied Capt. Ross, that the researches in 
Lancaster Sound had been prematurely abandoned, and that Capt. 
Ross had in several instances committed himself in the report, which 
had been drawn up of the proceedings of the Isabella and Alex¬ 
ander, whilst in the vicinity of the Croker Mountains. The most 
sanguine expectations were therefore entertained by Lieut.Parry, of 
being able to effect the passage in the very quarter where Capt Ross 
had relinquished the undertaking, and accordingly he directed 
his course direct for Lancaster Sound, which he entered on the 
29th July, in latitude 73° 51 f , and longitude 82° 50'. After en¬ 
countering many difficulties, he sailed up a strait to which he 
gave the name of Barrow’s Strait, and entered an inlet ten leagues 
broad, which he called Prince Regent’s Inlet. Having sailed up 
this inlet one hundred and twenty miles, his further progress was 
arrested by a solid bulwark of icebergs; he therefore returned 
to its entrance, and continued his course westward, giving names 
to various bays, headlands, &c., until he arrived in the longitude 
