'The Falls of Wilberforce, estimated at 250 feet high' Size:M: 60 x 40cm 25th August 1993

25th August 1993

19th October 1961

Plate 18 from the paper 'On the double organs of generation of the lamprey

should have left the matter to him

'The Falls of Wilberforce, estimated at 250 feet high' Size:M: 60 x 40cm 25th August 1993On the gruelling land journey back to Fort Enterprise, during which John Franklin and his men were reduced to eating their own boots, they discovered the Wilberforce Falls on the Hood River. John Franklin's expedition of 1819 22 travelled via the Coppermine River to map the Canadian Arctic coast, as part of efforts to find the fabled North West Passage. Illustration from Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, by John Franklin (London,