...and Chatham both arrived at Deptford in late October. Though Vancouver hoped that his survey would "remove every doubt, and set aside every opinion of...communication navigable for shipping, existing between the North Pacific, and the interior of the American continent within the limits of our researches," the...

...espouse outdated opinions -whatever their foundations . . .' ALEJANDRO MALASPINA, Diario General, 1792 7 trust the precision with which the survey of the coast...and set aside every opinion of a northwest passage. ' CAPTAIN GEORGE VANCOUVER, A Voyage of Discovery, August 1794 THE EXPEDITION OF George Vancouver left...

...Northern limits.'38 'I trust,' he concluded, the precision with which the survey of the coast of North America has been carried into effect, will remove every doubt, and set aside every opinion, of the existence of a north-west passage, or any water communication navigable for shipping, existing...