Sketch of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, 1825-1836 : commanded by Captain P.P. King, P. Stokes, and R. Fitz-Roy, Royal Navy / communicated by Sir John Barrow

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XVll. â€”Sketch of the Surveying Voyages of his Majesty's Ships  

Adventure and Beagle, 1825—1836. Commanded by Cap-  

tains P. P. King, P. Stokes, and R. Fitz-Roy, Royal Navy.  

Communicated by Sir John Barrow, Bart.  

The best charts of the South American coasts, which had been  

made by Spain, or by Portugal, were very inadequate to the wants  

of rapidly growing intercourse when France and England under-  

took to explore and survey those shores for the benefit of the world.  

The French examined the coasts of Brazil; the English those  

of Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, Chile, and Peru. In 1825, two  

vessels, the Adventure, 330 tons, and the Beagle, 235 tons, were  

ordered to be prepared. Captain Philip P, King was appointed  

to the former, and charged with the direction of the expedition.  

Captain Pringle Stokes commanded the latter. They sailed from  

England in May, 1826.  

Part of Eastern Patagonia, the greater portion of the Strait of  

Magellan, and considerable extent of the western shores of Pata-  

gonia, had been examined, when the death of Captain Stokes  

caused suspension of operations. Lieutenant Skyring, whose  

life has since been sacrificed, was temporarily appointed to the  

Beagle by Captain King, but soon afterwards superseded by the  

commander-in-chief on the station; who placed the writer of this  

sketch in the vacancy. During 1829 and 1830 the two vessels  

continued the survey, assisted by tender, whose commander was  

Lieutenant Thomas Graves. In the latter part of 1830 they  

returned to England, having added charts of the south-western  

cfnd southern shores of Tierra del Fuego, besides those of mul-  

titude of interior sounds and passages, to the acquirements above  

mentioned. Information of other kinds, interesting to men of  

science, and to most people, was also acquired, and will be made  

accessible without more delay than is absolutely necessary.  

paper on this subject, written by Captain King, was read before  

the Royal Geographical Society of London, in May, 1831. In  

the autumn the Beagle was again prepared for surveying voyage.  

Every care and assistance was given in her equipment. She  

wanted nothing that her size would allow to be taken on board.  

At the end of that year (1831) she sailed from Plymouth. One  

particular object being the measurement of meridian distances,  

by large number of chronometers, the Beagle was ordered to  

make her voyages by the shortest steps, touching land frequently,  

for the purpose of obtaining observations and ascertaining the rates  

of the chronometers. Until the vessel arrived in the River Plata,  

her chief occupations were, measuring meridian distances, and  

slightly adding to our knowledge of the Abrolhos shoals, on the  

coast of Brazil.  

VOL. VI.  

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