Many cartographers and some Arctic explorers in the early 1800’s believed there was a way to sail from Europe and the North Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and Orient by the Northwest Passage.
A detail from English artist Edwin Landseer’s 1864 painting “”Man Proposes, God Disposes,” depicting a ship’s wreckage in the Arctic, human bones, and two polar bears having their way with it all, ...
Appendix contains articles and tables on various subjects relating to science. John Richardson was surgeon and naturalist to the expedition. https://siris-libraries ...
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