of the Arctic geography with those of Ross's time. rative of a Second Voyage (London, 1835) contrasts Baffin's and the alleged De Fuca and De Fonte notions Mer du Sud (Paris, 1791), vol. i. Cf. also Venegas' Noticia de la California (Madrid, 1757). Ross's Narmap of De Fonte's route and Danville's of Cook's and Maldonado's, are in Laborde's Hist. Abrégée de la G. F. Müller's Voyages from Asia to America as translated by T. Jefferys, 2d ed. (London, 1764). Buache's * After a plate in the Encyclopédie, Suite du Recueil de planches (Paris, 1777). Delisle's map (1752) is in E et au My hotskes ERRE habitée ou PRESQUISLE Suppose joindre les decouperte tels Russes avec celles de L'Am defionto California, Captain Francis Smith, Commander. Henry Ellis's Voyage to Hudson's Bay, by the Dobbs Galley and California (under Moor and Smith) in 1746-7, for discovering a North-West Passage, with an historical account of the efforts hitherto made for the finding that passage (London, 1748).1 Reasons to shew that there is a great probability of a navigable passage to the Western American Ocean through Hudson's Straights and Chesterfield Inlet (London, 1749), which contains affidavits of Henry Ellis and Jeremiah Westall. Ellis formulated his views in his Considerations of the great advantage which would arise from the North West Passage (London, 1750). On the side of the Pacific, the chief interest attaches to the famous expedition of Capt. James Cook, which is elaborately chronicled in A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken by the Command of his Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. To Determine the Position and Extent of the West Side of North America; its Distance from Asia; and the Prac ticability of a Northern Passage to Europe. Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clarke, and Gove, in his Majesty's ships the Resolution and Discovery. In the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. In three Volumes. Vol. I. and II. written by Captain James Cook; Vol. III. by Captain James King. Illustrated with Maps and Charts from the Original Drawings made by Lieut. Henry Roberts, under the Direction of Capt. Cook. Published by Order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty (London, 1784). The bibliography of the attempts to explore from the North Pacific is given in Chavanne's Lit. über die Polarregionen (pp. 188, 286), and 1 Beside the London editions of 1748, 1749, there was a reprint in Dublin in 1749; French editions at Paris (1749) and Leyden (1750); a Dutch edition at Leyden (1750), and a German at Göttingen (1750). Cf. CarterBrown, iii., nos. 875, 900, 901, 926, 927, 928. NOTE TO THE MAP ON P. 112.-After a plate in the Encyclopédie, Suite du Recueil de planches (Paris, 1777). There are also Jefferys' maps dated 1753 and 1776. Other schemes of these fantastic notions will be found in the map in Harris's Voyages (London, 1705), vol. i., with its lake of Thongo or Thoya; and in that accompanying William Doyle's Some Account of the British Dominions beyond the Atlantic, particularly the important question about the North West Passage (London, 1770). Cf. the maps of Samuel Engel, which are repeated in his Mémoires (Lausanne, 1765), Geog. Nachrichten (Leipzig, 1772), and his Extraits raisonnés (Lausanne, 1779). From Gerrit de Veer's (Gerard le Ver's) Vraye description de trois Voyages, faicts en trois ans (Amsterdam, "M.VI'c "1600), to the north as high as 80° N. L., where he speaks of a country "lequel on presume estre Groenlande." This volume has some curious engravings showing the experience of Arctic voyaging at this early date. From Gerrit de Veer's Vraye Description (Amsterdam, 1600). VOL. VIII. - 8 BEHRING'S STRAITS, 1772.t 180 50 Part of the map in the French Encyclopédie (1777) illustrating the article on the north passage to India, and given in its Suite du Recueil de planches. This represents the knowledge that Cook was sent to increase. |