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A VOYAGE TO SPIT ZEEEGEN. 
Return Eeef on the west, or to within one hundred 
and sixty miles of Point Barrow. Captain Beeehey 
sailed through Behring’s Strait to Point Barrow, in 
71° 38' N. Dr. Richardson and Lieutenant Kendall 
coasted in boats from the mouth of the Mackenzie 
River eastward, doubling Cape Bathurst, in 70° 31' N., 
and Cape Parry, in 70° 6' N. They passed through 
the Dolphin and Union Strait, and thus reached the 
mouth of the Coppermine River. These discoveries 
rendered a North-West Passage almost certain, for, with 
the exception of one hundred and sixty miles, the 
north coast of America had been traced from Behring’s 
Strait to Point Turnagain, in 109° 25' W.; while 
Parry had advanced in a higher latitude to about 
116° W. The discovery of a connecting north and 
south passage would complete the search. In 1829 
Captain John Ross commanded an expedition sent out 
at the expense of Sir Felix Booth. He discovered 
Boothia Felix, explored portions of the Gulf of Boothia, 
and determined the site of the magnetic pole. His 
stay was an unusually prolonged one, his return to 
England not occurring till 1833. His brother, James 
Clark Ross, made extensive sledge journeys, in the 
course of which he traced portions of King William’s 
Island, Boothia Felix, and North Somerset; but he 
crossed Brentford Bay without noticing Bellot’s Strait, 
