| Description Of Item | Title as given on volume is: 'Account of a Voyage towards Baffin's Bay during the summer of 1818 - Containing observations on the present imperfect mode of conducting the whale-fishing in that district - With a View of the probability affecting a Polar or North-West Passage drawn up on principles purely inductive'. The subtitle on the first page is 'Account of a voyage to Baffin's Bay or Davis' Strait'. This account has more corrections than the finished version, the pages are not numbered and many of the footnotes and quotations present in the finished version are missing. Some passages in this version are also greatly expanded in the finished version. For example, the single page before the entry for 23rd June in this version becomes pp 207-212 in the finished one. This version ends with a section headed 'Observations on the probability of effecting a north west passage and the propriety of such an undertaking'. |