The Arctic regions and the northern whale-fishery

Scoresby, William · 1857

LONDON: THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY: _Instituted 1799_. 56, PATERNOSTER ROW, AND 65, ST. PAUL’S CHURCHYARD. The 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 Hydrographical Survey of the Greenland Sea. It is now issued by the kind permission of the author; and a wider circulation may thus be secured for the interesting contents of his volumes than they could receive in their original and more costly form. Some few materials have also been collated from the valuable papers by the sam…

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