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Refolution • 
Difccvery. 
INTRODUCTION. 
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Pickcrfgi.il, we fee, was not to attempt the difcovery of 
the paffage. He was directed to explore the coalts of Baf¬ 
fin’s Bay, only to enable him to bring back, the fame year, 
fome information, which might be an ufeful direction to¬ 
ward planning an intended voyage into that bay the en- 
fuing fummer, to try for the difcovery of a paffage on that 
ffde, with a view to co-operate with Captain Cook; who, 
it was fuppofed (from the tenor of his inftruCtions) would 
be trying for this paffage, about the fame time, from the 
oppofite ffde of America. 
Pickerfgill, obeying his inftructions, at leaf: in this in- 
ffance, did return that year; but there were fufffcient rea- 
fons for not fending him out again; and the command of 
the next expedition into Baffin’s Bay was conferred on Lieu¬ 
tenant Young; whofe Inftructions, having an immediate 
connection with our voyage, are here inferted. 
EXTRACT of INSTRUCTIONS to Lieutenant 
Young, commanding the Lion armed Veflel, dated 
13th March 1777. 
T / Jy r HEREAS, in purfuance of the King’s pleafure, fignified to us by the 
~ Earl of Sandwich, his Majefty’s floops named in the margin have been 
fent out under the command of Captain Cook, in order, during this and the en- 
fuing year, to attempt a difcovery of a Northern paffage, by fea, from the Pacific 
to the Atlantic Ocean ; and, for that purpofe, to run up as high as the latitude 
of 65 ° North, where it is hoped he will be able to arrive in the month of June 
next and there, and as much further to the Northward as in his prudence he 
Jhall think proper, very carefully to fearch for and explorefuch rivers or inlets as 
may appear to be of a confiderable extent, and pointing to Hudfon’s or Baffin’s 
Bays, 
