... from America over the vast space that led to the island archipelago of Eastern Asia Far towards the northern end of the great island, the fishermen of the Channel ports had found their way in yearly ... northern seas The eastern passage, from the German Ocean round the top of Russia and Asia, was first attempted As early as the reign of Edward the Sixth, a company of adventurers, commonly called ... Lake; Hearne speaks of it as Athaspuscow Lake The latter name is the same as that now given to another lake (Athabaska of Canadian maps) the word being descriptive and meaning the lake with the beds...