Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-04-30


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ARCTIC ADVENTURE, by Sea and by Land
from the earliest date to the last expedition il
search of Sir John Franklin edited by Epe
i Sargent with maps and illustrations. Boston
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The sea. as well as the land, has its litera
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" awakens the most interest, is the description o
the arctic regions-those northern seas and sur
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: of latitude. where trees never grow, and wher
for few days only, Of the three hundred an
sixty-fve, vegetable life man'tests itself in tn
' most stinted forms. High up towards the pole
however, DR. Kane discovered, what many sci
:. enti6c men have believed did really exist, al
open sea, free from ice, and indiGstfygof a dc
gree of warmth much greater than in tho lowe
:, latitude of seventy degrees. As factn geog
raphy, it is an important one to establish bu
a beyond that there is no probability that til
r discovery will ever be of any practical utility
! 1t can never be field for commerce, or for an
;. display of the arts Of life.
It In this volume, Mr.. Sargent has wisely col
is suited the public tastes and wants by present
a ing in a condensed form, an account of the va
rious expeditions that have been made to III
10 polar seas; thus enabling the massof reader
IS to obtain the facilities for an extended know
le edge of the subject without the expense and il
u convenience of procuring the original works
9 Besides the accounts of the early vqypgers in
it those sens, by the north men, the Cabots. Wi