Journal of a Voyage in Baffin's Bay and Barrow Straits, in the Years 1850-1851, Vol. 1 of 2

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Excerpt from Journal of a Voyage in Baffin's Bay and Barrow Straits, in the Years 1850-1851, Vol. 1 of 2: Performed by H. M. Ships "Lady Franklin" And "Sophia, " Under the Command of Mr. William Penny, in Search of the Missing Crews of H. M. Ships Erebus and Terror "So Zemblas rocks (the beauteous work of Frost) Rise white in air, and glitter o'er the coast, Pale suns, unfelt, at distance roll away, And on the impassive ice the light'nings play, Eternal snows the growing mass supply, Till the bright mountains prop the incumbent sky, As Atlas fix'd, each hoary pile appears, The gather'd winter of a thousand years." Pope. The Temple of Fame, lines 53-60. From the earliest period in which we find history recording the dawn of discovery in the far north, down to the present time, that portion of the northern hemisphere lying within the Arctic Circle has not failed to attract a due share of attention from the maritime nations of Europe. During the last two centuries and a half, the imperial government of Russia sent out upwards of fifty expeditions to explore the polar regions adjacent to that vast empire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.