Identifier: s01philosophicalmag56londuoft (find matches)
Title: The Philosophical magazine; a journal of theoretical, experimental and applied physics
Year: 1798 (1790s)
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Subjects: Physics
Publisher: London Taylor & Francis (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
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For Table X. read XII. Tab. 1. 4 years, Arg. VIII. for 404 read 494. ■ II. 1813, Mean Longitude, for 14-G read 14*5. X. Arg. 0^ 14^ and>. 16°, for 2 355 read 2 35-2. Xlll. Change places with the arguments 45 21 and 47 22. - VI. (Title) for 1820 read 1800. LXXIII. The Arctic Expedition. W, ITH our present Number we have given a Map of the dis-coveries of Captain Parrv in the Polar sea. The tifficial accountof the voyage has not yet made its appearance, and we have butlittle to add to the statements laid before our readers in our lastNumber (p. 383). The subjoined particulars, among which area few not before noticed, are from an officer on board one of theships:— ON the I Ith of May 1819 the Hecla and Griper left England.In the middle of .hme they first fell in with ice; and at the latterend of that montli they were beset by it, while making for thewest coast of Daviss Straits. After some little time the shipswere liberated, and steefed northward along the edge of the ice, which
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The Arctic Expedition, 441 which led fiiem uj* to Disco Island, in which no appearance ofanv opeiiiMpj was discovered. In lat. 72, 30. N. they tell in witha whaler, which reported that the iee wt.s blocked agaiiist theland in 7-1 N. which determined the Commander of the Expedi-tion to tnke the ice at the above spot. Accordingly they co.n-menced, and persevered in warping and heavinj? thronijh betweenthe floes, when, being aided bv a strong easterly wind, whichopened the ice a little, they were enabled to force their waythrough, with ail sail set. They were frequently stopped in theirarduous exertions, from wiiich they liberated theniselves by saw-ing the ice,—This passage was never before attempted, and is acircumstance of great intportance to whalers. They were now in clear water, and saw no ice again until theymade Lancaster Sound, where it appeared in small open streams.They made this Sound on the 1st of August, and, having a fairwind, steered up the Sound with every vaidof canva

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