 In April 1819, having paid off the Trent in the preceding November, he undertook charge of an expedition for ascertaining the actual position of the mouth of the Coppermine River, and the trending of the North American shore eastward of that river. His...  Memoirs of Hydrography: 1750-1830 - Page 781830Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1822 - 1148 pages
...navigator, but desirable for the bent-lit of geographical and hydrographical science, to ascertain the actual position of the mouth of the Copper-mine River and the trending of the shores of the Polar Sea to the eastward of it. With this * ll\i engravings of Captain Hatty's ' Welsh... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1823 - 580 pages
...intrepid navigator, but desirable for the benefit of geographical and hydrographical science, to ascertain the actual position of the mouth of the Copper-mine River and the trending of the shores of the Polar Sea to the eastward of it. With this * His engravings of Captain Bully's ' Welsh... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1824 - 918 pages
...intrepid navigator, but desirable for the benefit of geographical and hydrographical science, to ascertain the actual position of the mouth of the Copper-mine River and the line of the shores of the Polar Sea to the eastward of it. With this view, lieutenant (now captain)... | |
 | W. H. Bishop - Arctic regions - 1834 - 50 pages
...midshipmen, and Dr. Richardson, as surgeon, left England on the 23rd of May, 1819, for the purpose of ascertaining the actual position of the mouth of the Coppermine River, and the trending of the Polar Sea to the eastward of it. Captain Franklin was considered a fit person to conduct this expedition,... | |
 | John Joseph Shillinglaw - 1850 - 380 pages
...destined to proceed overland from the shores of Hudson's Bay for the purpose, more particularly, of ascertaining the actual position of the mouth of the Coppermine River, and the exact trending of the shores of the Polar Sea to the eastward of it. The details of that fearful undertaking,... | |
 | John Joseph Shillinglaw - Arctic regions - 1851 - 416 pages
...destined to proceed overland from the shores of Hudson's Bay for the purpose, more particularly, of ascertaining the actual position of the mouth of the Coppermine River, and the exact trending of the shores of the Polar Sea to the eastward of it. The details of that fearful undertaking,... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds - Arctic regions - 1852 - 424 pages
...perilous voyage of discovery to the neighborhood of Spitzbergen, which I have fully recorded elsewhere. In April, 1819, having paid off the Trent in the preceding November, he was invested with the conclu et of an expedition destined to proceed overland from the shores of Hudson's... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - Arctic regions - 1857 - 530 pages
...perilous voyage of discovery to the neighborhood of Spitzbergen, which I have fully recorded elsewhere. In April, 1819, having paid off the Trent in the preceding November, he was invested with the conduct of an expedition destined to proceed overland from the shores of Hudson's... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds - Arctic regions - 1860 - 346 pages
...destined to proceed overland from the shores of Hudson's Bay, for the purpose more particularly of ascertaining the actual position of the mouth of the Coppermine River, and the exact trending of the shores of the Polar Sea to the eastward of that river. The details of this fearful... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds - 1875 - 466 pages
...perilous voyage of discovery to the neighbourhood of Spitzbergen, which I have fully recorded elsewhere. In April, 1819, having paid off the Trent in the preceding November, he was invested with the conduct of an expedition destined to proceed overland from the shores of Hudson's... | |
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