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LAST VOYAGE OF CAPT. ROSS. 
obstruct the passage to the attainment of the grand object which 
the gallant navigator had in view ; in fact, if a premium had 
been offered by any of our scientific societies for a project, the 
chief merit of which was to consist in its total inability of being 
carried into execution, no one will deny thatCapt. Ross, amongst 
a host of candidates, would be the most likely man to whom it 
would have been awarded. It must however be observed, that 
Capt. Ross was peculiarly unfortunate in the choice which he made 
of the engine, for although the principles on which it was con¬ 
structed might be according to the strict rules of science, yet as 
it was almost the first of its kind which had undergone the test 
of a trial, so it should have been the last to have been affixed 
to a vessel, about to sail on an expedition, where the utmost 
strength would be required, which the power of machinery 
could produce. 
The engine was built on a plan of Crichson, and fitted up 
by Braithwaite, the boilers were two and twenties, containing 
360 gallons, the length of the fore and aft part of the boiler 10 
feet 6 inches, diameter 17 inches, spur wheels 2 feet 6 inches 
paddled ; without the paddles in diameter 8 feet, breadth of the 
paddles four feet 6 inches, length 2 feet 6 inches, length of each 
frame 13 feet, breadth 2 feet, weight eighteen hundred. In the 
month of April, a few trials were made on the river, but the 
engine by no means answered the expectations which had been 
formed of it, on the contrary its defects were too manifest to 
excite any hope of obtaining any benefit from its use. 
The following were the Names of the Persons composing the 
Crew of Ike Victory * 
CAPT. JOHN ROSS, R. N. 
COMMANDER JAMES C. ROSS, R. N. 
Mr. WILLIAM THOM, It. N. 
Mr. J. Mc’DIARMID, Surgeon. 
Mr. BLANKEY, ^ Mates. 
Mr. THOMAS ABERNETHY, $ R. N. Gunner. 
* The Persous, whose Name is printed in Italics, are since dead. 
