The possibility of approaching the North Pole asserted
By: By the Hon. D. Barrington
Edition: A new edition. With an appendix, containing papers on the same subject and on a Northwest Passage. By Colonel Beaufoy, F.R.S. Illustrated with a map of the North Pole, according to the latest discoveries.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 43240
Publisher: Published by James Eastburn & Co. at the Literary Rooms, Broadway, corner of Pine-Street. Abraham Paul, printer.
Published: 1818
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Discovery and exploration
Other titles: On approaching the North Pole.; Barrington and Beaufoy on the North Pole.
Notes: Running title: On approaching the North Pole.

Spine title, on printed paper label: Barrington and Beaufoy on the North Pole. With a map. Eastburn & Co. edition.

Title page vignette signed: Anderson.

Engraved frontispiece has title: Map of the countries around the North Pole according to the latest discoveries.

Last page blank.

Includes bibliographical references.

Shaw & Shoemaker 43240

Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Table of contents: title: Instances of navigators who have reached high northern latitudes. Read at a meeting of the Royal Society, May 19, 1774; title: Additional proofs, &c. Read at a meeting of the Royal Society. Dec. 22, 1774; title: Postscript. January 8, 1775; title: Additional papers from Hull; title: Thoughts on the probability, expediency, and utility of discovering a passage by the North Pole; title: A short account of navigators, who have reached high northern latitudes; title: Observations on the floating ice, which is found in high northern and southern latitudes; title: Appendix. Papers on approaching the North Pole and on a Northwest Passage / By Colonel Beaufoy, F.R.S. The papers are extracted from Thomson's Annals of philosophy, by permission of Colonel Beaufoy; title: On the Northwest Passage; and the insular form of Greenland.