ROSS (JOHN) Explanation and Answer to Mr. John Braithwaite's Supplement to Captain Sir John Ross's Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, 1835
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ROSS, NORTH WEST PASSAGE, 1829-1833
ROSS (JOHN) Explanation and Answer to Mr. John Braithwaite's Supplement to Captain Sir John Ross's Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, first edition, publisher's printed wrappers (creased at lower fore-corner) [Arctic Bibliography 14862; Sabin 73370, citing incorrect date], 4to, A.W. Webster, [1835]
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Footnotes

  • John Ross led a privately funded expedition to find a Northwest Passage, embarking in 1829 on the Victory, a paddle-steamer with boilers fitted by John Braithwaite (an engineer whose locomotive engine Novelty was the first one ever to run a mile within a minute, and was entered into the Rainhill trials). The expedition foundered in the ice in 1832. Ross, in his Narrative of a Second Voyage, put the blame on the inadequacy of the boilers, Braithwithe immediately responding in print in his misleadingly titled "Supplement". In the 8-page "Explanation" Ross replies with "feelings of contempt... because it is lamentable to perceive a tradesman, even of the second class, descending to such unbecoming language as Mr. Braithwaite has made use of...", outlining eight major defects of the engines.

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ROSS, SIR JOHN. 1777-1856. Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions during the years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. Including the Reports of Commander, now Captain, James Clark Ross... And The Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole [with] Appendix to the Narrative... London: A. W. Webster, 1835.