Historical View of the Progress of Discovery on the More Northern Coasts of America, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time (Classic Reprint)

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Among the various Expeditions of Discovery by land and sea, none have been considered of greater importance, or regarded with a deeper interest, than those into the Arctic Regions. The navigator has no where to contend with such formidable obstacles, nor does he elsewhere behold an aspect of nature so pe culiar. The edinburgh cabinet library com menced with a volume descriptive of the Polar Seas and Countries; and the popularity of that work has aflorded a gratifying proof, both of the interest felt by the public in the subject, and Of its having been treated in a satisfactory manner.

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