A voyage of discovery, made under the orders of the admiralty in His Majesty's ships Isabella and Alexander, for the purpose of exploring Baffin's Bay, and inquiring into the probability of a northwest passage.
Doubling North Cape amid storms and fog and ice, after the rough voyage of a month, he became discouraged, and determined to change his plan and seek a northwest passage.
It was now manifest that no northwest passage to the Indies could be found in this direction, and it was not deemed expedient to attempt to ascend the river any farther in the ship.
It had been from the beginning an ulterior object of the French in making a settlement in North America to discover a northwest passage by water to the Pacific Ocean.
Kohl was occupied with the preparation of a history of the Search for a Northwest Passage, from Cortes to Franklin, of which only a fragment appeared in the Augsburg periodical, Ausland.
Some years later the English geographer Jefferys attacked the problem in maps appended to Dragg’s Great Probability of a Northwest Passage, which was printed in London in 1768.
Jefferys, in his Northwest Passage, gives a fac-simile of the American hemisphere.
The East India Company hoped to find a shorter route to India and in 1609 employed an English mariner, Henry Hudson, to search for a northwest passage.
Soon afterward the Muscovy Company of London sent out an exploring expedition with instructions to find a northwest passage.
In 1743 the British Government offered a reward of twenty thousand pounds for the discovery of a northwest passage by the way of Hudson Bay.
Even more than a century before Columbus discovered America, two Venetian brothers named Zeno sought a northwest passage to the Orient, believing that the difficulties in navigating it would be offset by the shortening of the route.
Frobisher's voyage of 1576 was the true beginning of the arctic search for a northwest passage, all earlier efforts having been in lower latitudes.
Northwest passage from vs to Cataia, constantly to be beleeued in America nauigable.
The voyage of Sebastian Cabota to the North part of America, for the discouery of a Northwest passage, as farre as 58.
Before it came to completion a Greenland Company came into existence, and, while feigning to hunt up a northwest passage, its ships are said to have sailed into the North River, and to have landed on these shores in 1598.
If Hearne left the fort in spring, he could not possibly reach the Arctic Circle till the following winter; and with the North buried under drifts of snow, he could not learn where lay the Northwest Passage.
They hunted for the "northwest passage," first going up the James to the falls at the site of Richmond, but returning disappointed.
When the English colony first came to Jamestown in 1607, they were hunting for gold and for the "northwest passage" to the East Indies.
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, on a northwest passage, 5; attempt to plant a colony, 7.
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