New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-22
rs THERE AN OPEN POLAR SEA-

The appearance Of DIR. Kanes long expected nara
tive of Arctic Expeditions VIZ again awaken On inter-
est in the question Of open near the Nona Pole;
for bis discovery Of that sea- with the varied detaas
every circumstance connected with it, now Be b.
vestgatsd. and the evidence Of its continuance 70 the
Pole of the earth be duly weighed.
The idea of a warmer region the North Pole,
which must be accompanied by open water, and as
natural consequence, with animal life in greater
abundance than in the permanent ice-beited district
further south IL not one. More than TWO cen
turtles ago. the appearance Of pen water III tue hghes
lafitudes first suggs sted H. and although certain the
orists coDtended ganst IT, the opinion continued 70
prevail to day and now, although there has
been nothing certain OF s exstence, there have been
such sccumulatve facts that il oDly awaited the 10
dubitable evidence such as Dr. Kane has presented TO
esiabIisb the theory.
The Dutch whalemeu above and around the Island
Of Spitzbergen have often puzzled through the drift Toe
into open sp Of toward the Pole ard Baron Voc
WrDgc, when forty miles from the coast Of Arctic
Asia, raw as he thought, q vast, illnitsble ocean
beyond, and we doubt not mauy navigstOrs, witbcst
Icing of the fact have really been IN this
but who did not dare 70 venture further toward the
mysterious Pole. DR.. Scoresby, among others, msye
m, ntioned az one who has en- within its area. Ths
veteran Arctic navigator engaged for more Than
thirty years in the Greenland fishery, and discovered
The coat and served on the eastern eide which bear
bs name. On this occasion he passed the pack OF
fo st:pg ice by keeping the Greenland coast and
found bimse)f in open water beyond. Had be been
prepared to pursue bis voyage be might have pushed
on esrer the pole than any navigator before or since
hut be did not dare venture beyond point from when
be was uncertain of escaping before the season ha1
IGssed and therefore Tetrested through the peex.
Cept. Parry, in bis weknown boat voyage, ATTEMPTED
to cross this floating ice and well provided for me
purpoee but II was unfortunately harder and roogn1
then he anticipated, and, although making progresss
rorthward over the drift he found that il was actually
btaiing him southwark. The projectors OF thai eipg
dtifn thought the plan The ost easibl. one TO reaeh
tie Pole, entertaining the belief that u they eoad
PEGS this floating ice, they would ind an open eeA
beyond
II must bere be remark ed, that in the SPINNER norn
winds prevail in these seas; and aided by strong cur
rent setting TO the south the mass Of ice aoe ams
lated ard freed in durrg the Winter breaks up aad
Ia c.ied toward The south. This belt OF broken ice,
or the rack a. 1t 10 called, forms the only impedi-
nept 10 an approach to the Pole by he North Atnai'
Ocean. In the Fall when Ell eng souiherly winds pre-
vail .uob of this pack remains again forced bsck
toward TIE Pole in q measure filing up the open eea
from which it had come bu, whether there are lands
or resisting currents hear the Pole 70 prevent s acSu
ulston there, or whether wsmer tempersture eAss
20 Dissolve IT, remains 10 be seen. 50,
DE- Kane wirteIed IN Smiths Strait near toe ~"