 | Thomas Douglas Earl of Selkirk - 1816 - 56 pages
...suppose that such a voyage as it describes is impracticable. We firmly believe, on the contrary, that a navigable passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific round the northern coast of America does .exist, and may be of no difficult execution. Why, then, it may be asked, have all the attempts... | |
 | 1817 - 694 pages
...Maldonado's voyage is held to be a clumsy and audacious forgery. The Reviewers firmly belitve, however, that a navigable passage from the Atlantic to the pacific, round the northern coast of America, «loes exist, and may be of no difficult execution. In support of tliis opinion, they proceed to examine... | |
 | 1817 - 482 pages
...Maldonado's voyage is held to be a clumsy and audacious forgery. The Reviewers firmly believe, however, that a navigable passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, round the northern coast of America, does exist, and may be of no difficult execution. In support of this opinion, they proceed to examine... | |
 | 1817 - 590 pages
...suppose that such a voyage us it describes is impracticable. We firmly believe, on the contrary, that a navigable passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific round the northern coast of America does exist, and may be of no difficult execution. Why, then, it may be asked, have all the attempts... | |
 | 1817 - 708 pages
...Maldonado's voyage is held to be a clumsy and audacious forgery. The Reviewers firmly believe, however, that a navigable passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, round the northern coast of America, does exist, and may be of no difficult execution. In support of this opinion, they proceed to examine... | |
 | 1850 - 762 pages
...also among officers of the navy, that the discovery, or rather the completion of the discovery of a passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, round the northern coast of America, ought not to be abandoned, after so much has been done, and so little now remains to be done, and that... | |
 | Charles Richard Weld - 1850 - 58 pages
...also among officers of the navy, that the discovery, or rather the completion of the discovery, of a passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, round the northern coast of North America, ought not to be abandoned, after so much has been done, and so little now remains to... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1860 - 338 pages
...preparing a new edition of this small work, a brief notice of these attempts may not be inappropriate. In the spring of 1845, the Admiralty determined on...Crozier — Sir John Franklin, having control over the whole, being on board the Erebus. The expedition quitted England in the month of May ; the Battler... | |
 | 1817 - 698 pages
...Maldonado'a voyage is held to be a clumsy and audacious forgery. The Reviewers firmly believe, however, that a navigable passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, round the northern coast of America, does exist, and may be of no difficult execution. In support of this opinion, they proceed to examine... | |
 | 1816 - 592 pages
...suppose that such a voyage as it describes is impracticable. We firmly believe, on the contrary, that a navigable passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific round the northern coast of America does exist, and may be of no difficult execution. Why, then, it may be asked, have all the attempts... | |
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Relation' of Maldonado to be both of veracity and authenticity,' we are by no means inclined to suppose that such a voyage as it describes is impracticable. We firmly believe, on the contrary, that a navigable passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific... 