 | General history - 1815
...follows : — " And whereas many advantages, both to commerce and science, may be also expected from the discovery of any northern passage for vessels by sea, between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, be it enacted, That if any ship belonging to any of his majesty's subjects, or to his majesty, shall... | |
 | Thomas Douglas Earl of Selkirk - 1816 - 130 páginas
...Geo. III.) granting a reward of twenty thousand pounds to any person or persons who should discover any northern passage for vessels by sea, between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, in any direction or parallel to the northward of the fifty-second degree of northern latitude. In the... | |
 | 1820
...pnblic Reward to such Person or Persons, being his Majesty's Sub* ject or Subjects, as shall discover a Northern Passage for Vessels by Sea between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and also unto such as shaîl first approach by Sea within One Degree of the Northern Pole;" the Reward... | |
 | 1821
...to such Person or Persons, being His Majesty's Subject or Subjects-, as shall discover a Nort/icrn Passage for Vessels by Sea between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and abo unto such as shall first approach by Sea within One Degree of the Northern, Pole ; " the Reward... | |
 | 1825
...public Reward to such Person or Persons, being His Majesty's Subject or Subjects, as shall discover a Northern Passage for Vessels by Sea between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and also unto such as shall first approach by Sea within one Degree of the Northern Pole ; " the Reward... | |
 | 1825
...Reward to such Person or Persons, being His Majesty's Subject or Subjects, as shall discover a-Northern Passage for Vessels by Sea between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and also unto such as shall first approach by Sea within one Degree of the Northern Pule ; " the Reward... | |
 | 1827
...public Reward to such Person or Persons, being His Majesty's Subject or Subjects, as shall discover a Northern Passage for Vessels by Sea between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and also unto such as shall first approach by Sea . within One Degree of the Northern Pole; " the Reward... | |
 | 1828
...public Reward to such Person or Persons, being His Majesty's Subject or Subjects, as shall Discover a Northern Passage for Vessels by Sea between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and also unto such as shall first approach by Sea within One Degree of the Northern Pole;" the Reward in... | |
 | 1845
...passage ; but it excluded his Majesty's own ships : the reward was moreover, confined to such sliips as should discover a passage through Hudson's Bay....the discovery of " any northern passage" for vessels oy sea, between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans ; and it also awards the sum of five thousand pounds... | |
 | 1859
...framed as to include his Majesty's ships, and to appropriate the reward for the discovery of ' anv northern passage ' for vessels by sea, between the...thousand pounds to any ship that shall approach to within ona degree of the North pole." The vessels visited Table Bay, Van Diemen Land, New Zealand, the Friendly... | |
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An Act for giving a public Reward to such Person or Persons, being His Majesty's Subject or Subjects, as shall discover a Northern Passage for Vessels by Sea between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and also unto such as shall first approach by Sea .... 
