Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-10-22
/" To Agra and Lahore Of Great Mogul,
Down TO the golden Chersonese."

Among the first adventures who attempted this hyper
borean way two Portuguese brothers, named Cor
tereal who, in the early part the sixteenth century
sailed towards the pole and heard of no more.
An Engishman, Sir Hugh Willoughby, some fifty years
later sought TO find China beyond the coast OF La
brador but both he and his left their bodies the
frozen plains where they were found BY the Esqumaux
Indians. Sir Humphrey Gilbert at subsequent period,
went down, off the coast of Newfoundland, in making
similar experiment. In 1910 Hudson, the famous navi-
gator, from whom North river named after dis
covering Hudsons Bay adrift with eight Of his
sailors by mutnous portion Of his crew, and sup
posed to have been destroyed by the cebegs In 1923
Bau added the knowledge of the vast inlet Of the sea-
since called by bis name, to our arctic geography In
lI4l Behring Russian, explored the straits the east
side Of the continent and in 1873 Captain Phippes
made many explorations in the north; but the arctic
discovery of modern times may be said to have begun in
1878 with Sir John Ross who passed through Davis's
Straits and Dafns Bay to Lancaster Sound The next
year Franklin; about whose supposed loss much has
been said undertook trace the lookedfor passage
from the mouth Of the coppermine river, eastward by
the shore, to Hudsons Bay. lie was accompanied by
Mr. Buck and Dr. Richardson and they made one of the
drcaricst journeys record without meeting with much
success.
The year, Lieutenant Parry had gone to Lancas-
ter Sound, and, passing through the Straits named by
him Barrows Straits had discovered Welngtons Chan
mel Regents Inlet, Bathursts, Byam, Martins Melville
and other islands, called the Parry Islands These
places have ever since been the ultimate land mark of
Arctic research for navgators have succeeded in GO
ing beyond them and all the discoveries since made
have had only more or less reference to them Parry
saw too and defined Banks Land TO the southwest Of
Melville Island the points Of departure in McCures
more recent expedition.
Parry Ross, and Captain Franklin made subsequent
voyages all Of which added something TO our Informal
ton AMI in 1880 and 1886 Captain Back eastward
beyond Franklin's Point; but these explorations
nearly all carried within and below the delneaons Of
Parry No one says late writer, had ventured beyond
Cape Walker in the direction Of Bankss Land, to the
and south Of North Somerset gone beyond Parry
Islands to the northwest to the north through yelling
ton channel Neither had any attempt been made from
Bafns Bay above Lancaster Sound the remote
waters supposed to flow around the Pole IL will be seen,
therefore, that if Commander Mcclure has gone sufficient
ly far beyond Banks Land to the regions of Capt
Beecbys discoveries in 1926, to the north Of Behring's
Straits he has solved the problem Of northwest passage
But that il is solved, Of what will it BET As
of transit to China it afford the least
facility, and in other commercial aspect does it hold
any promises to enterprise. The treacherous and
hummocky labyrinths of the Polar somebody de-
scrbes them wholly unit for ordinary navigation,
that the geographical and scientific results of the disco
very those alone which likely to be Of any per-
manontinterest.