A chronological history of voyages into the Arctic regions; undertaken chiefly for the purpose of discovering a north-east, north-west, or polar passage between the Atlantic and Pacific (1818) (14763446732)

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Title: A chronological history of voyages into the Arctic regions; undertaken chiefly for the purpose of discovering a north-east, north-west, or polar passage between the Atlantic and Pacific ..
Year: 1818 (1810s)
Authors: Barrow, John, Sir, 1764-1848
Subjects: Arctic regions
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY I OF VOYAGES INTO THE ARCTIC REGIONS; UNDERTAKEN CHIEFLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF DISCOVERING A NORTH-EAST, NORTH-WEST, OR POLAR PASSAGE BETWEEN THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC: TBOM THE EARLIEST PERIODS OF SCANDINATIAN NAVIGATION, TO THE DEPARTURE OF THE RECENT EXPEDITIONS, UNDER THE ORDERS OF CAPTAINS ROSS AND BUCHAN. How shall I admire your heroicke courage, ye marine worthies, beyond all names ofworthiness! that neyther dread so long eyther presence or absence of the suune; nor thosefoggy mysts, tempestuous winds, cold blasts, snowes and hayle in the ayre: nor the un-equall seas, which might amaze the hearer, and aniate the beholder, where the Tritons andNeptunes, selfe would quake with chilling feare, to behold such monstrous icie ilands, rent-ing themselves with terrour of their owne massines, and disdayning otherwise both the seassovereigntie, and the sunnes hottest \aolence, mustering themselves in those watery plaiueswhere they hold a continual civill warre, and ruchronologicalhis00barr

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