8vo. 8 pages. Text is in German. A scarce resource. This is a complete monthly issue, containing the above mentioned account. Attractively bound booklet style in recent blue paper covers with label. A scarce publication comprising two letters written by Christopher Middleton while at his quarters at Churchill, on the shore of Hudson Bay, dated June 1741 and September 1741 respectively, illuminating details of the long-standing disagreement between Middleton and Dobbs. Christopher Middleton (late 1600s-1770), English naval officer and navigator, was appointed on 5 March 1741 to the command of the Royal Navy's sloop 'Furnace'. He was encouraged by the theories of Arthur Dobbs who was convinced that tide differences pointed to the Passage's entry being near Wager Bay. In May 1741 he left England in the Furnace, accompanied by a smaller vessel, the purchased pink HMS Discovery under the command of Commander William Moor, and sailed to North America in search of a Northwest Passage to the East Indies. He spent the winter at the entrance of the Churchill River in Hudson Bay, then proceeded as far north as Repulse Bay, but was prevented by extreme ice conditions from going any further. Middleton returned to England in 1742, where he was presented with the Copley Medal and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society to whom he presented a paper on "The extraordinary degrees and surprising effects of Cold in Hudson's Bay". Dobbs however accused Middleton of falsification, and the two engaged in a pamphlet controversy for years. In 1744 Dobbs produced 'An Account of the Countries Adjoining to Hudson’s Bay,' which extolled the virtues of the region and criticized the HBC for its stewardship of it. These are the original pages printed in 1806, and NOT a reprint. This narrative is from a rare multi-volume geographical and scientific journal titled "Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden", which issued fifty volumes from 1798-1816 and which encompassed critical contemporary topics of geography and astronomy. Adam Christian Gaspari and Franz Xaver von Zach were editors of this important scientific journal.
