LAST VOYAGE OF CAPT, PARRY. 
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of 110° west, where his crew became entitled to £5000.; the 
only parliamentary reward, which has ever been claimed. 
After passing a long and dreary winter at Melville Island, the 
expedition reached in the following year the most western point 
by thirty degrees, which had been yet attained to the northward 
of the American coast, being 113° 48' 22* west longitude, and 
74° 27' 50* north latitude. It here became evident from the solid 
appearance of the ice, that farther progress in that parallel was 
impossible, and the expedition returned. 
The result of the last voyage having considerably strengthened 
the hope of a passage being to be found, although in a lower lati¬ 
tude ; a new expedition was equiped, and Capt. Parry, having 
been promoted, sailed in the Hecla and Fury in 1821; proceeding 
westward through Hudson’s Strait to the Repulse Bay of Middleton, 
which he carefully surveyed, without finding any second outlet. 
After passing the winter, he made sail through Fox's channel, and 
with considerable difficulty entered a strait, which he named after 
his ships, “ the Hecla and Fury.” Here he passed a second 
winter, making several land excursions on Melville Peninsula and 
Cockburn Island, which closed the proceedings, the sickly state 
of the crews making an immediate return necessary. 
The information gained by this voyage proved the impossi¬ 
bility of a communication with the Polar Sea in that direction, 
but it was hoped that the desired passage might still be discovered 
through Prince Regent’s Inlet, and Capt. Parry was again ap¬ 
pointed to make the attempt in this direction. He sailed in 
1824; after wintering at Port Bowen, he succeeded in penetrat¬ 
ing as far as longitude 91° 50' west, and latitude 72° 42' north. 
Here one of the ships, the Fury, was nipped by the ice, and it 
was found necessary to make some repairs: during the removal 
of her stores, she was further damaged by a violent storrn, and 
there became no alternative, but to abandon her. Such provisions 
and stores as were not required were made secure on Fury Beach, 
and the Hecla returned to England. Capt. Parry made a fourth 
voyage the following year, with the aim of reaching the North 
Pole, but not a single discovery was made worthy of any notice, 
and so utterly destitute was the expedition of all interest or ad- 
