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The Non Existence

Alexander Mackenzie proved there was no practicable sea passage through North America to the Pacific but that crossing over land was possible, his journals influenced Jefferson to send Lewis and Clark on an expedition a decade later, and other explorers continued unsuccessfully searching for a Northwest Passage by sea despite Mackenzie's findings.

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The Non Existence

Alexander Mackenzie proved there was no practicable sea passage through North America to the Pacific but that crossing over land was possible, his journals influenced Jefferson to send Lewis and Clark on an expedition a decade later, and other explorers continued unsuccessfully searching for a Northwest Passage by sea despite Mackenzie's findings.

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“The non-existence of a practicable passage by sea and the existence of one through

the continent are clearly proved,” he wrote after his two missions. Meriwether Lewis
and William Clark followed in his footsteps, crossing the continent a decade later,
writes Nicandry. “By all accounts,” he writes, it was Mackenzie’s journals that
“prompted Thomas Jefferson to launch what we know as the Lewis and Clark
expedition.”

Sadly, others were less inclined to listen to Mackenzie. Colonial explorers continued
their search for a navigable all-water Northwest Passage, with many, including the
lost Franklin expedition of the mid-1840s, incurring gruesome fates.

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