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Posted by Brian Stephens on Sunday 4th of May 2014 16:45
The Gentleman's magazine. v.47 1777.Thursday, May 1 - Advice was received that the Lion armed ship, Lieutenant Walter Young commander, was sailed from Stormness, in the North of Scotland, in order, if possible, to discover a north-west passage to the Southern Ocean. Mr. Lane, an eminent mathematician, tis retained in this voyage, from whose judicious observations on longitude and magnetical powers, much information is expected.