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“ having no other object in view than the advancement of the 
honour of his country, and the interests of science, and to 
gratify the feelings of a friend,” immediately agreed to Capt. 
Ross’ proposition, on condition that his connexion with the en- 
terprize should not be made known : that accordingly, with 
the exception of about two thousand pounds expended by Capt. 
Ross, Mr. Booth did actually bear all the charges of the expe¬ 
dition, to the amount of between seventeen and eighteen thou¬ 
sand pounds: that Capt. Ross, being left by Mr. Booth at 
liberty to choose whom he pleased to accompany him, received 
gratuitous offers of zealous service and assistance, in any ca¬ 
pacity, from those distinguished officers, Captains Back and 
Hoppner, offers equally creditable to Capt. Ross and to the 
spirit of those, who made them; but finally selected his nephew. 
Commander James Clark Ross, a young officer of distinguished 
scientific attainments, who had been employed in every previous 
expedition to the Arctic seas; and having engaged Mr. Thom 
as purser, who, as well as Commander Ross, agreed to go 
without pay, and Mr. Mc’Diarmid as surgeon, together with a 
crew of nineteen men, sailed from England in May 1829: that 
in spite of the mutiny of the crew of a whaler, which had been 
engaged to accompany them with provisions, Capt. Ross per¬ 
severed, in reliance on finding the supplies, which had been 
landed by the Fury, on Fury Beach, and then entered upon a 
course of sufferings, of dangers and discoveries, for a summary 
of which your committee would refer the House to the fol¬ 
lowing Letter addressed by him to the secretary of the Board of 
Admiralty. 
Copy of a Letter from Captain Ross to Captain the Honourable 
George Elliot, C. B.; dated on board the Isabella of Hull 
Baffin's Bay, September 1833. 
On board the Isabella of Hull, Baffin's Bay, 
Sir, September 1833. 
Knowing how deeply my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty 
are interested in the advancement of natural knowledge, and particu¬ 
larly in the improvement of geography, I have to acquaint you, for 
SO. 4 x 
