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v^ IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-S) 1.0 2.0 I.I 1.8 CIHM/ICMH CIHM/ICIVIH Microfiche Collection de Series. microfiches. Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions/Institut Canadian de microreproductions historiques Technical and Bibliographic Notes/Notestechniques et bibliographiques The to ti The Institute has attempted to obtain the best L'Institut a microfilm^ le meilleur exemplaire original copy available for filrrlng. Features ofthis qu'il lui a 6t6 possible de se procurer. 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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la m^thode. errata i to *: f e pelure, !on d n 32X #«^y»!» THE DISCOVERY t,^. ,> OF THE NOHTH-WEST PASSAGE BT H.M.S. " INYESTIGATOR," CAPT. R M'CLURE, '\: 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854. EDITED BY COMMANDER SHERARD OSBORN, AUTHORor "STKAVLRaVBSFROMANARCTICJOVRNAI.," FROM THE LOGS AND JOURNALS OF CAPT. ROBERT LE M. M'CLURE. ILLUSTRATED BY COMMANDER S. GURNEY CRESSWELL, R.N. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS, & ROBERTS. if 1856. TherightojtraH.t1<itionisresei'vcJ^ S^t^t^J L</NDON: Printed!iySpottiswoode&Co., Nfiw-strect-Square, TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS of the ADMIRALTY, DESCRIPTIVE OF THE VOTAOS OF IIER MAJESTY'S DISCOVERY SHIP "INVBSTIQATOB," WHILEIN SEARCHOFTHEEXPEDITIONUNDERCAPT. SIRJOHN FRANKLIN, R.N. K.C.H,, AND OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE NORTH-AVEST PASSAGE BY CAPTAIN ROBERT LB ME8DR1EK M'CLCRE, R.N., ARE, WITH THEIR LORDSHIPS' PERMISSION, ' ilrspcctfu'lij &c⁣itrb UY THEIR lordships' HOST OBEDIENT AND HDHBLE SERVANT, SHERARD OSBORN, LATE COMMANDER OF H.M.S.V. "PIONEER." A 2 iiMk rilEFAOE. The annals of Arctic History afford so many noble illustrations of the spirit of enterprise and hardi- hood of our sailors, that in this point of view alone they can, it is to be hoped, never fail to interest the British people. It is easy to attempt to cast ridicule on any generous impulse of a nation or an individual, by speaking of it as Quixotic, foolhardy, and so forth; but if it be a weakness in English seamen, that for three centuries they have sought to win honour and renown in regions where the ordinary hardships of those whose business is upon the great waters are multiplied a hundredfold, it will assuredly be no joyous day for England, when her sailors shall be free from the charge of any such chival- rous extravagance. Sir John Franklin and his hundred and thirty- A 3