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Excerpt from Narrative of the Recent Voyage of Captain Ross to the Arctic Regions, in the Years 1829-30-31-32, and a Notice of Captain Back's Expedition: With a Preliminary Sketch of Polar Discoveries, From the Earliest Period to the Year 1827 A north-west passage to India (the name given in the middle ages to all the distant coun. Tries of Asia) is an object which has attracted the attention of geographers and navigators from the discovery of the continent of America to the present period. To the strong desire which has prevailed to solve this problem, we owe the knowledge we possess of those icy re gions that surround the North Pole, which has been obtained by the succession of bold adven tures by European Navigators. And although the existence of such a passage seems doubtful, or, if it does exist, would prove useless for the purposes of commerce, the following short ac. Count of the various voyages and expeditions which have been undertaken, chiefly with a view to this object, it is believed will be found inte resting, and useful for reference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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