Date: 1867
A great deal has been added by later Avriters, but very little of this account has been contradicted.  The same engines Avhich Lamont describes have been at work for 200 years at least in Spitzbergen.  The best-know-n book, and perhaps the best wliich treats of arctic ice, is Scoresby's first volume* It contains, in a con densed form, the experience of a shrewd, scientific, practical observer, who had made seventeen voyages to the Spitzbergen or " Greenland whale-fishery ;" and who seems, also, to have read all that had then been written about his subject.