The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-12-24 00:00:00

ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

The following communication on this still inte-
resting subject has been obtained from an suthen.
tic and respectable voswee. Many of the particu-
lars contained in it, indeed, hay, already b-en
communicated to the public through various chair
nets, but in almost every instance they have been
mixed up with so much error, as to impart an air
of romance to the whole stateminit. Accuracy,
however, is at sill times to be preferred to novelty,
and it is chiefly in this view that we give publicity
to the following narrative
The discovery ships Isabella and Alexander,
after the Oeth July, the date of Captain Roses lost
dispatches from the Arctic Sea*, being then in
about the latitude 75. N. and longitude 6i. W.
proceeded in a northern direction, but were soon im-
peded by a fourth barrier of ice, which, after encoun.
tering very seriousdifficulties and much danger, they
succeeded in forcing on the 7111 August. On the
soh, some /wives were seen on the shore to the
esstward, and on the 13th, Prince Regent's Bay,
in lat. 76. N. was discovered to be their apparent
tesidence.

"These Indians were with much difficulty com-
niunicated with through John Sackeouve, the
Esquimau'. who accompanied the expedition from
England., and who, on this occasion, displayed
equal coarage and address.
" On the 14th August the expedition passed,
with an open sea, iron. Prince Regent's Bay to a
Cape iii I'os. W. N. 10ng..66. 44. which *us
named for his Royal Highness the Duke of York :
the same day made Cape Dudley Diggs of Baffin,
and successively passed Wolatinholin, Whale, and
Sir Thomas Smith's Sound.. atidCarey's !aloud..

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"On the plst they made a Cape, which was
named for his Royal Highoess the Duke of Cla-
rence. Here the lend, which had from the Whale
Stroud taken a westerly direction, began to wind to
the south, and the ships were again encuMbered
with ice isod fogs. Their progress along shore was
slow,-but on the 80th August they got as far as,Laii.
.caster Sound of Ruffin, which had much the appear-
once of a passage, but proved to be an inlet. On the
Ist Sept. Capt. Ross took possession of that part of
the coast in lat. 74. N. and long. 80. W. with the
usual forms. It was found to be uninhabited.—
They proceeded without impediment ■long the
coast, which from thence took an eisterhr direction.
,Lauded again in 76.30. N. long. 68. 44. W. on an
jetted near the main land, which appeared to have
been recently inhabited. Here the land took
.0 south-
easterly direction, and the shills ;vim wretched
across to the eastward, and determined the non.
existence of Jarnea's bland, laid down in the old
Admiralty charts. After this they continued their
.course Menthe land to Cape Widsingliam or Dims,
which they found to he in lat. 66. N. and long.
gift. W. the Strait being here 110 miles wide. /From
thence the land took a westerly direction. mitil they
came on the 20th September to Cumberland Strait,
which they osceriainee to he between the latitudes
el 63. and 64. N. and ,luny. 65. W.
•' Oil the 2d t)ctnher the expedition passed War.
wichii hu ..land, and on the 3d made Resolution
Island, hating thereby completed their survey, and
having fully Ascertained that on passage mots from
the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, through Davis's