| Summary: | Taken from map: "Exhibiting the most remarkable tracts of our English navigators & several attempts to find out the North East and North West Passages. Drawn from the most approv'd modern Maps and Charts, and adjusted by Astron! Observation By Eman:Bowen geographer to his Majesty". Plate size: 38.0 x 43.0 cm (15.0 x 16.9 inches) Sheet size: 42.7 x 48.3 cm (16.8 x 19.0 inches). Kershaw #420 Arctic and sub-Arctic map, showing excellent detail around Hudson Bay, Greenland, Spitzbergen and northeast coast of Europe & Asia: Northeast Passage, discoveries of Barentsz, Baffin, Hudson, Smith, Wager, James and other early explorers. The map appeared at the height of the so-called Dobbs-Middleton controversy and includes the following note: "It may be proper to Inform the Curious, that in laying down the Geography of Hudson's Bay, and the Neighbouring Coasts &c We have consulted, and in some respects followed Capt. Middleton's Draught; But more particular that of Capt. Smith's and the Officer of the Furnance Sloop and Discovery Pink from 57 degrees to 67 North Latitude. We have also perused and derived some assistance from a chart of these parts lately published, Dedicated to Arthur Dobbs. The Authorities here referred to, are the most authentick yet Extant; but the publick is in great Expectation of New Discoveries from the Expedition of the Dobbs Galley and the California which passed by Yarmouth the 31st of May 1746 under convoy of the Loo of 40 Guns, on their Voyage to Discover the N.W. passage by Hudson's Streits." "A Correct Draught of the North Pole." From John Harris' Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels. This is an excellent picture of the English search of the passage to the Orient.
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