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A VOYAGE TO SPITZBEBGEN. 
on July 26, when it was making for Lancaster 
Sound. 
In 1858 Sir Leopold McClintock and liis expedition 
found some documents, from which it appears that 
Franklin proceeded through Lancaster Sound, and up 
Wellington Channel, to the north of Bathurst and 
Grinnell Island; then they turned south, through 
Crosier Channels, Barrow’s Strait, Peel’s Sound, and 
Franklin Channel, thus completing the discovery of 
the long-sought-for North-West voyage. The crew 
must have explored or seen portions of North Somerset,, 
Prince of Wales’s Island, Boothia Felix, and King Wil¬ 
liam’s Island, on or near which most of the crew died 
in the spring of 1848. As no news could be gleaned,, 
search parties were sent out, the first in 1847, and 
McClintock’s, which was the fortieth, in 1857. Here,, 
however, we can only notice those which proceeded 
over new ground. 
In 1849 Sir J. C. Eoss traversed Peel Sound, and 
examined the coast of North Somerset as far south as- 
72° 38' N. Parry surveyed Wellington Channel as. 
far as Cape Beecher. Captain Austin examined por¬ 
tions of Bathurst’s Island and By am Martin’s Island, as. 
also portions of Prince of Wales’s Island and Bussell’s 
Island. This latter work was chiefly done by Captain 
Sherard Osborn, who was then a lieutenant. Captain 
