PREFACE. The Public are probably aware that, agreeably to a re gulation of the Admiralty, all Journals of Voyages of Discovery, kept by Officers or others, are required to be temporarily surrendered for the use of that Board : hence it has happened, that we have been unable till now to submit to our Readers full details of Captain Parry’s last Voyage. We have,-however, been so fortunate as to recompense them for the delay, by introducing to their perusal one of the most consistent, intelligent, and interesting Accounts, that have yet appeared of a Voyage which has excited so great a degree of Public Interest. In making this observation, we have, however, no in tention to depreciate the Classical Production of Captain Parry, or the accurate and modest Journal of Mr. Fisher, whose works would have sufficed to record the Incidents of this Voyage, if it had not been our duty, as Journalists in this branch of Literature, to submit the best account which we are able to obtain.