the name of Admiralty Inlet to an opening to the eastward of Cape York; naming a headland which forms one point of the entrance after the Right Honorable Charles Yorke, late first Lord of the Admiralty; and another, near it, after Lieutenant (now Sir John) Franklin. After quitting Sir James Lancaster’s Sound, he surveyed the western coast of Baffin’s Bay, till stopped by ice in the latitude of 68° 15' 20" and longitude 65° 48' 38". On the 3rd Sept. Lieutenant Parry passed some of the highest ice-bergs he had ever seen, one of them being not less than from 150 to 200 feet above the sea; and on the 6th, he was visited by several Esquimaux, from an inlet named the river Clyde; one of whom was prevailed on to sit pretty quiet while Lieutenant Beechey made a drawing of him. The whole party seemed much pleased, and expressed their delight by jumping, and by loud and repeated ejaculations. Lieutenant Parry and Captain Sabine landed upon an island, in order to observe the end of an eclipse of the sun, as well as to obtain the other usual observations, together with angles for the survey of that inlet.
“On the second of October, in scudding before the wind, under the main-top-sail, a heavy sea struck the Hecla on the larboard quarter, rendering it necessary to press her forward under more canvass, by which we lost sight of the Griper in the course of the morning. * * * * On the afternoon of the 16th, the sea being very high and irregular, and the ship pitching with considerable violence, the bowsprit was carried away close to the gammoning, and the fore-mast and main top-mast immediately followed it over the side. * * * * On the 29th, we made Buchaness; and next day, the wind having come to the southward, I landed at Peterhead, accompanied by Captain Sabine and Mr. Hooper, having directed Lieutenant Beechey to proceed with all possible despatch to Leith. Both ships came into the river Thames about the middle of November, and were paid off at Deptford, on the 21st of the following month.”
Lieutenant Parry was advanced to the rank of Commander, Nov. 4, 1820; the day after his arrival at the Admiralty. On the 19th December, the Bedfordean gold medal of the Bath and West of England Society for the encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, was unanimously voted to him, and it was afterwards resolved,
