. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history ; and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. CLIMATE. W science; but that the same notion should be revived, and proclaimed with confidence at this day, may well excite surprise. These reasonings, which suggested themselves on the sailing of the first expedition sent by government to explore the Arctic Seas, have been singularly confirmed by the results of the late daring voyages. Captain Parry, by the most vigilant
. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history ; and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. CLIMATE. W science; but that the same notion should be revived, and proclaimed with confidence at this day, may well excite surprise. These reasonings, which suggested themselves on the sailing of the first expedition sent by government to explore the Arctic Seas, have been singularly confirmed by the results of the late daring voyages. Captain Parry, by the most vigilant exertions indeed, succeeded, during the brief interval of an open season, to advance from Baffin's Bay, by Lancaster Sound, above 400 miles westwards, through floating masses of ice, on the parallel of 76 degrees; but this distance is probably not the third part of the whole space between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. All the subsequent attempts of that able navigator to penetrate any farther in the same di- rection proved unsuccessful; and his last laborious effbi-t to reach the Pole, by dragging boats over an expanse of rough and broken ice, completely failed. The utmost exertions of the crews scarcely enabled him to proceed, in 1827, three degrees northward from Spiizbergen, and attain the latitude of 82° 45', not far beyond the usual resort of the Greenland whalers. Captain Weddell, without any stimulant of national reward, had, four years previously, the resolution to penetrate to a very great height in the opposite hemisphere, which is always considered colder and less accessible than the northern, having advanced to the latitude of 74° 15' in an open sea. On the hypothesis that the quantities of ice which encumber the Arctic Seas have been accumulating for a long succession of years, it is assumed as a fact, that throughout Europe a milder and more genial climate had formerly prevailed. A closer inspection of the de- tails, however, will show this supposition to be
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