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Excerpt from The Northern Whale-FisheryThe following pages are an abridgment, with some modificatior/is and additions, of the second volume of captain (now the rev. Dr.) Scoresby's work on the °arctic Regions and Whale - fishery, Edinburgh, 1820, the sub stance of the former Volume having already appeared in this Monthly Series. The second chapter of the work, on the comparative View of the whale-fisheries of different European nations, has be...

Excerpt from Memorials of the Sea: Sabbaths in the Arctic RegionsThe memorials OF the sea, which for a number of years have been out of print, are herein repro duced in a different and more extended form. The subjects treated of being very diverse, it seemed desirable so to arrange them, as to have the longer narratives, or those on special topics, in separate volumes. Thilst this mode of publication will afford to all classes of readers the O...

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Excerpt from William Scoresby's des Jüngern Tagebuch Einer Reise auf den Wallfischfang, Verbunden mit Untersuchungen und Entdeckungen an der Ostküste von Grönland im Sommer 1822: Aus dem Englischen Übersetzt und mit Zusätzen und Anmerkungen VersehenDem %erfaifer noch einen befoa Intrinb an 'untetfucbnngen ander Sßiiifie non©rßnlanb gab, mar, mie er feibii geßebt, Die.bbifnnng, nie¿eirbteinige®pnzmon Dennommtigen nonegifrbmnnfiötcinbifd>en ®oto...

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Excerpt from Journal of a Voyage to Australia: And Round the World, for Magnetical ResearchScoresby has, with others, misunderstood Mr. Airy's meaning in a most important particular, and that his own theoretical views were thereby to some extent diverted from considera tions to which he might otherwise have attributed greater importance. If I succeed in any degree in my own object, I am confident that I shall at least be advancing what each of...

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Excerpt from An Account of the Arctic Regions, Vol. 2 of 2: With a History and Description of the Northern Whale-FisheryThe work of Oronne is a summary of ancient history, ending with the year 4-17, at which period he lived. He was a Spaniard and a Christian. To this translation, Alfred add ed, of his own composition, a Sketch of Germany, and the vap luable Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan, the former towards the North Pole, the latter into the...

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Excerpt from William Scoresby's des Jüngern Tagebuch Einer Reise auf den Wallfischfang, Verbunden mit Untersuchungen und Entdeckungen an der Ostkueste von Groenland im Sommer 1822: Aus dem Englischen Übersetzt und mit Zusätzen und Anmerkungen Versehen©i'e 1irfcbrift, non weicber bier bie 11eberfebnng er: fcbeint, fi1btt ben $itei Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale fishery, incli1ding Researches and Discovefies on the eastern coast of we...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from The Arctic Regions and the Northern Whale-FisheryThe following pages contain, in an abridged and somewhat modified form, the substance of the first volume of captain (now the rev. Dr.) Scoresby's work on the Arctic Regions and the Whale - fishery, Edinburgh, 1820 with the omission of the third chapter on the Hydro graphical Survey of the Greenland Sea. It is now issued by the kind permlssion of the author, and a wider circulation ...