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Parry Channel is revealed as a great icy way stretching 800 miles from Baffin Bay in the east to M'Clure Strait in the west.
S.S. Manhattan's Northwest Passage VoyageObservations by Canada's Representative 1970
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Robert M'Clure, Royal Navy, made it in 1854 but the key part of his journey had to be completed on foot.
S.S. Manhattan's Northwest Passage VoyageObservations by Canada's Representative 1970
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M'Clure, who had sailed through Bering Strait, met the ship of Killet which had come through Lancaster Sound.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson
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M'Clure, having wintered near the connecting waters, had really established the existence of the passage by observation before the meeting.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson
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M'Clure, Rev.E. -- letter to: motive to get at the truth in all things: immortality and the conservation of energy: thought as a "function" of the brain: origin of sin.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896
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For this step M'Clure alleged the authority of the Secretary of War, who on October 4 had written him, "Understanding that the defence of the post committed to your charge may render it proper to destroy the town of Newark, you are directed to apprise its inhabitants of this circumstance, and to invite them to remove themselves and their effects to some place of greater safety."
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The latter, who was senior to M'Clure, lent a favorable ear to his suggestion that the two forces should be combined to attack Vincent's lines.
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December 13, M'Clure reported the enemy appearing in force on the opposite shore; but, "having deprived them of shelter, they are marching up to Queenston."
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With such numbers, so constituted, it was as impossible for M'Clure to trouble
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In reply to a very aggrieved remonstrance from M'Clure, Harrison expressed extreme sympathy with his disappointment and that of the volunteers, but said no material disadvantage was incurred, for he was convinced the
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