From Gerrit de Veer's Vraye Description (Amsterdam, 1600). † After a reproduction in the Encyclopédie, Suite du Recueil de planches (Paris, 1777). 115 ories and reduplicated notions which prevailed may be traced in the maps of such representative compilers as Cluny, Vaugondy, and Forster, time some positive experiences recorded, as by not to name others. There were at the same Samuel Hearne in his Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern etc., 1769-72 (London, 1795); with some commerOcean, for the discovery of a North West Passage, cial prophecy, as in John Meare's Voyages in the It was in 1817 and 1818 that the interest was revived, in a way that has been maintained ever since in a remarkable manner. One of the earliest of these new discussions, but before the new interest was fairly developed, is in Bernard Ide B Fortune Elisabeth ・de Resolution Detroit d'Hudson LABRADOR ou Pays Lis Mistassins O'Reilly's Greenland, the adjacent seas and the N. W. passage to the Pacific Ocean, illustrated in His map indicates how there had grown up, as to a voyage to Davis's Strait in 1817 (Lond., 1818). the traditionary views of Baffin, a distrust, which it was the work of the rising interest to dispel. 1 There was a French translation, Paris, 1775, and a German, Berlin, 1796, with annotations by J. G. Forster. No effort attracted much attention, however, till Capt. John Ross, of the royal navy, published of the Admiralty, in his Majesty's Ships Isabella his Voyage of Discovery, made under the Orders * After the Encyclopédie, Suite du Recueil de planches (Paris, 1777). C. Farewel and Alexander, for the Purpose of exploring Baf fin's Bay, and enquiring into the Probability of a North-West Passage (London, 1819).1 Capt. Wm. Edward Parry, of the British navy, having commanded the "Alexander" of Ross's fleet, had published a personal narrative of that expedition in his Journal of a Voyage of Discovery to the Arctic Regions, Apr.-Nov., 1818 (London, 1819), and was put in command of a new expedition the next year, of which he gave record in his Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-west Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the Years 1819-20, in his Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper. With an Appendix, containing the Scientific and Other Observations. Published by Authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty (London, 1821).2 Capt. John Franklin conducted at the same time an overland expedition, which was printed as a Narrative of a journey to the Shores of the 1 There was a second edition the same year; a German translation at Jena in 1819; a French at Paris in 1819, 1821, and 1822; a Dutch at the Hague in 1821. A later English edition (1834) is not complete. There grew out of this publication a controversy represented in Edward Sabine's Remarks on the account of the late Voyage of Discovery to Baffin's Bay, published by J. Ross (London, 1819; two eds.), and Ross's Explanation of Sabine's Remarks (London, 1819). Ross's map shows his development of the geography of Baffin's Bay. 2 This is usually accompanied by a reprint of a paper published on the ships: The North Georgia Gazette and Winter Chronicle (London, 1821). Both were reprinted in Philadelphia (1821); a German version appeared at Hamburg, 1822, and a Dutch at Amsterdam, 1821, 1832. A correlative account is Alexander Fisher's Journal of a Voyage in the Hecla and Griper, 1819-1820 (London, 1821). NOTE. The opposite map is a part of the map given in The Journal of a Voyage by the Hon. Commodore Phipps, etc. (London, 1774). * From Historische, Statistische, Geographische Belustigungen (Leipzig, 1782). The shape of Baffin's Bay here given accorded with a prevalent notion. Cf. Harris's Voyages (1705), vol. ii., and Prévost's Voyages, xv., and the Allg. Hist. der Reisen, xvii. (1758). Cf. ante, Vol. I. 132; Gerard Mercator's Circumpolar map in Engel's Neuer Versuch (Basel, 1777); and that in E. A. W. von Zimmermann's Die Erde und ihre Bewohner, Dritter Theil. Die westliche arctische Welt (Leipzig, 1811). 1 Reprinted (Philad., 1824). An ed. in 4 vols., to which was added a Brief account of the second Journey, in 1825-27, was published at London, 1829. Franklin's Narrative of a second Expedition to the Shores of a Polar Sea, 1825-27, was published in London, 1828, and reprinted in Philadelphia the same year. A German translation appeared at Weimar in 1829. A. H. Beesly's Sir John Franklin (N. Y., 1881) is based on Franklin's narratives and on the monograph on Franklin by M. de la Roquette (Paris, 1860). 2 It was reprinted in New York (1824), and Sabin gives a German version (Jena, 1824). Growing out of the same explorations, we have two further records by Captain G. F. Lyon: The Private Journal of Captain G. F. Lyon of H. M. S. Hecla, during the Recent Voyage of Discovery under Captain Parry (London, 1824). Reprinted, London, 1825, and Boston, 1824. It is of value as respects the characteristics of the Eskimos. A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt to reach Repulse Bay, through Sir Thomas Rowe's "Welcome," in his Majesty's Ship Griper, in the Year MDCCCXXIV. (London, 1825). This is his official report. 3 It was reprinted in Philadelphia (1826), and a German version was published at Jena, 1827. His Three Voyages was later included in Harper's Family Library (N. Y., 1840). Parry's narratives are of importance in the study of the Eskimos. Cf. Edward Parry's Memoirs of W. E. Parry (London, 1857). |