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the information of their Lordships, that the expedition, the main object 
of which was to solve if possible the question of a North West Passage 
from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, particularly by Prince Regent’s 
Inlet, and which sailed from England in May 1829, notwithstanding 
the loss of the fore mast, and other untoward circumstances, which 
obliged the vessel to refit in Greenland, reached the beach on which 
his Majesty’s late ship Fury’s stores were landed, on 13th August. 
We found the boats, provisions, &c. in excellent condition, but no 
vestige of the wreck. After completing in fuel and other necessaries, 
we sailed on the 14th, and on the following morning rounded Cape 
Gang, where our new discoveries commenced, and keeping the west¬ 
ern shore close on board, ran down the coast in a S.W. by S. course, 
in from ten to twenty fathoms, until we had passed the latitude of 72° 
north, in longitude 94° west; here we found a considerable inlet lead¬ 
ing to the westward, the examination of which occupied two days ; at 
this place we were first seriously obstructed by ice, which was now 
sure to extend, from the south cape of the inlet, in a solid mass, round 
by south and east to E.N.E. Owing to this circumstance, the shallow¬ 
ness of the water, the rapidity of the tides, the tempestuous weather, 
the irregularity of the coast, and the numerous inlets and rocks, for 
which it is remarkable, our progress was no less dangerous than te¬ 
dious, yet we succeeded in penetrating below the latitude of 70* north 
in longitude 92° west, where the land, after having carried us as far east 
as 90°, took a decided westerly direction, while land at the distance of 
forty miles to southward, was seen trending east and west. At this 
extreme point our progress was arrested on 1st October by an impe¬ 
netrable barrier of ice. We, however, found an excellent wintering 
port, which we named Felix Harbour. 
Early in January 1830, we bad the good fortune to establish a friendly 
intercourse with a most interesting association of natives, whom being 
insulated by nature, and never before communicated with strangers; 
from them we gradually obtained the important information that we 
bad already seen the continent of America, that, about forty miles to 
the south-west there were two great seas, one to the west, which was 
divided from that to the east by a narrow strait or neck of land. The 
verification of this intelligence either way, on which our future opera¬ 
tions so materially depended, devolved on Commander Ross, who vo¬ 
lunteered this service early in April, accompanied by one of the mates, 
and guided by two of the natives, proceeded to the spot, and found 
