Baffin's

Possession Bay, and subsequently on the west coast of Baffin's Bay, afforded me an excellent opportunity of concluding my survey, and of verifying my former chart of that coast.

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The voyager who goes north for the first time is bound, let us say for illustration, for Baffin's Bay; and, from what he has learnt beforehand, bears and walruses, seals and sea-lions, whale blubber and the Esquimaux who eat it, all occupy some considerable share of his imagination.

Tom Finch's Monkey and How he Dined with the Admiral

In this instance, however, the mode of experiment was to be reversed, and instead of attempting the former routes by Davis 'Strait or Baffin's Bay, etc.,

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Ross reached 77 deg. 40 min. latitude, and more accurately determined the situation of Baffin's Bay, which until then was believed to extend 10 deg. further to the east than it actually does.

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Lieutenant Parry, who had accompanied Captain Ross, was sent, in conjunction with Captain Lyon, in the year 1819, on a second voyage into Baffin's Bay, and having penetrated as far as to gain the first prize offered by Parliament (£5000) and having made the most western point ever reached in the Polar seas, he was entrusted with the direction of the Hecla and Fury, on a similar expedition in 1821.

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But though much geographical information had been gained in the neighborhood of Hudson's Bay, Davis 'Strait, Baffin's Bay, and the coast of Greenland, yet no channel whatever was found.

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Baffin's bay, in latitude 76° 33′ -- her thermometer marking 64° below zero, as the coldest of the winter.

Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence T. Bassnett

Baffin's bay; but on account of the unusual quantities of ice, and the frosts "which glued the floes together," she was unable to force a passage through the middle ice, and wintered on the east side of

Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence T. Bassnett

During the first expedition of Ross, he found an ice berg in Baffin's

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Davis 'Straits and Baffin's Bay, into the Frozen Ocean, and thence into the Pacific.

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