...for your mature deliberation whether in the ensuing season you would proceed by the above .mentioned Strait, or whether you would persevere to the south-westward,...of western longitude, and that beyond this, and to Behring's Strait, DO land is visible from the American shore of the Polar Sea." [8. Should he be so...

...used to endeavour to penetrate to the southward and westward in a course as direct towards Behring's Strait as the position and extent of the ice, or the...of western longitude, and that beyond this, and to Behring's Strait, no land is visible from the American shore of the Polar Sea. [8. Should he be so...

...consequence of the unusual magnitude and apparently fixed state of the barrier of ice observed by the Hccla and Griper, in the year 1820, off Cape Dundas, the...of western longitude, and that beyond this, and to Behring's Strait, no land is visible from the American shore of the Polar Sea. [8. Should he be so...

...permanent appearance, and that when passing the mouth of the Strait between Devon and Cornwallis's Islands, you had observed that it was open and ,clear...travellers who have traversed the American shore of thc Polar Sea, that the groups of islands that stretch from that shore to the northward to a distance...

...of the Polar Sea as affording the best prospect of accomplishing the passage to the Pacific. * * * You are well aware, having yourself been one of the...of western longitude, and that beyond this and- to Behring's Strait no land is visible from the American shore of the Polar Sea.' That the search for...

...of the Polar Sea as affording the best prospect of accomplishing the passage to the Pacific. . . . You are well aware, having yourself been one of the...not yet known, do not extend to the westward further th:m about the 120th degree of western longitude, and that beyond this and to Behring's Strait no land...

...of the Polar Sea as affording the best prospect of accomplishing the passage to the Pacific. * * * You are well aware, having yourself been one of the...traversed the American shore of the Polar Sea, that the gYoups of islands that stretch from that shore to the northward to a distance not yet known do not...

...of the Polar Sea as affording the best prospect of accomplishing the passage to the Pacific. * * * You are well aware, having yourself been one of the intelligent travellers who have traversed tlie American shore of the Polar Sea, that the groups of islands that stretch from that shore to the...

...open sea, where there would be neither islands nor banks to arrest and fix the floating 278 APPENDIX. masses of ice ; and if you should have advanced too...of western longitude, and that beyond this, and to Behring's Strait, no land is visible from the American shore of the Polar Sea. 8. Should you be so...

...strait, or w r hether you should persevere to the south-westward, according to the former directions. "You are well aware, having yourself been one of the...not extend to the westward further than about the one hundred and twentieth degree of western longitude ; and that beyond this, and to Behring's Strait,...