Identifier: voyagetowardsnor00inmulg (find matches)
Title: A voyage towards the North pole undertaken by His Majesty's command, 1773
Year: 1774 (1770s)
Authors: Mulgrave, Constantine John Phipps, Baron, 1744-1792
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Publisher: London, J. Nourse
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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JOURNAL. overboard; as we experienced on our way home, thouglithe fhips were then much Hghtened by the confumption ofprovifions, and expenditure of flores. Such accidents inthe outfet muft have defeated the voyage. At the time welailed, added to the fine weather, we had the further ad-vantage of nearly reaching the latitude of eighty withoutfeeing ice, which the Greenlandmen generally fall in within the latitude of feventy-three or feventy-four. There wasalfo mofl probability, if ever navigation fhould be pradi-cable to the Pole, of finding the fea open to the Northwardafter the folftice; the fun having then exerted the fullinfluence of his rays, though there was enough of thefummer ftill remaining for the purpofe of exploring thefeas to the Northward and Weftward of Spitfbergen, APPENDIX.
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