 | William Chambers - Literature - 1837 - 352 pages
...two great seas, one to the west, which waS divided from that to the east by a narrow strait or neck of land. The verification of this intelligence either...depended, devolved on Commander Ross, who volunteered his service early in April, and, accompanied by one of the mates, and guided by two of the natives,... | |
 | Literature - 1850 - 640 pages
...information, to verify which became the duty of Commander Ross, who volunteered this service early in April, accompanied by one of the mates and guided by two of the natives. They proceeded to the spot indicated by the Esquimaux, and found that the north land was connected... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Ells - American literature - 1778 - 392 pages
...two great seas, one to the west, which was divided from that to the east by a narrow strait or neck of land. The verification of this intelligence either...depended, devolved on Commander Ross, who volunteered his service early in April, and, accompanied by one of the mates, and guided by two of the natives,... | |
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America, that about forty miles to the SW there were two great seas, one to the west, which was divided from that to the east by a narrow strait or neck of land. The verification of this intelligence either way, on which our future operations so materially... 
