Instances of navigators who have reached high northern latitudes. Read at a meeting of the Royal Society, May 19, 1774.
Barrington, Daines,1727-1800.
[London,
1775]
Drop-head title.
Includes: "Additional proofs that the polar seas are open. Read at a meeting of the Royal Society, Dec. 22, 1774" (pp.[15]-48) and a postscript dated January 8, 1775 (pp.49-51).
Later reissued in 1775 as 'The probability of reaching the North Pole discussed' with additional material.
Signed on pp.13 and 48: Daines Barrington, F.R.S.
ESTC