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THE

ARCTIC REGIONS

AND THE

NORTHERN

WHALE-FISHERY.

BY

CAPTAIN SCORESBY, F.R.S.E.

LONDON:
THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY:

Instituted 1799.

56, PATERNOSTER ROW, AND 65, ST. PAUL’S CHURCHYARD.

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The following pages contain, in an abridgedand somewhat modified form, the substanceof the first volume of captain (now the rev.Dr.) Scoresby’s work on the Arctic Regionsand the Whale-fishery, Edinburgh, 1820; withthe omission of the third chapter on the HydrographicalSurvey of the Greenland Sea. It isnow issued by the kind permission of theauthor; and a wider circulation may thus besecured for the interesting contents of hisvolumes than they could receive in theiroriginal and more costly form. Some fewmaterials have also been collated from thevaluable papers by the same author contributedto the “Edinburgh Philosophical Journal.”

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CHAPTER I.
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REMARKS ON THE CELEBRATED QUESTION OF THE EXISTENCEOF A SEA COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THEATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS, BY THE NORTH;WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE PROGRESS OF DISCOVERYIN THE NORTHERN REGIONS	9
CHAPTER II.
DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF SOME OF THE POLAR COUNTRIES	33
CHAPTER III.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE GREENLAND OR POLAR ICE	62
CHAPTER IV.
OBSERVATIONS ON THE ATMOSPHEROLOGY OF THEARCTIC REGIONS, PARTICULARLY RELATING TOSPITZBERGEN AND THE ADJACENT GREENLAND SEA	96
CHAPTER V.
A SKETCH OF THE ZOOLOGY OF THE ARCTIC REGIONS	139
CHAPTER VI.
EXPEDITIONS FOR FURTHER DISCOVERY	188

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