. The polar and tropical worlds [microform] : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe : two volumes in one : embracing also an account of the expeditions of all the Arctic explorers from the discovery of Iceland, over one thousand years ago, to Hall's last expedition in the northern world, together with the wonderful discoveries and adventures of Agassiz, Livingstone, Wallace, and other distinguished travelers in the tropical countries. Arctic races; Tropics; Natural history; Races arctiques; Régions tropicales; Sciences naturelles; genealogy. mU: ,. 40
. The polar and tropical worlds [microform] : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe : two volumes in one : embracing also an account of the expeditions of all the Arctic explorers from the discovery of Iceland, over one thousand years ago, to Hall's last expedition in the northern world, together with the wonderful discoveries and adventures of Agassiz, Livingstone, Wallace, and other distinguished travelers in the tropical countries. Arctic races; Tropics; Natural history; Races arctiques; Régions tropicales; Sciences naturelles; genealogy. mU: ,. 402 TIIE POLAR WORLD. after liim, and of Sabiina Lfuul (00" S. Int.). About the same time three cnn- nidorable expeditioiiss, iilted out by tlu; t^ovenuneiits of France, the L'liited htiites, and Enghuid, made their apijearaneu in the Antarctic Seas. Diunout d'Urvilie discovered Terre Louis Philippe (C;}" 31' S. lat.) in r,!). ruary, 1838, and Terre Adelie (00° 07' S. hit.) on January 21, 1810. Ahii(.>t on tlie same day, Wilkes, the commander of the I"'nited States Exjilorint; K\. jiedilion, reached an ice-bound coast, wliicli lie followed for a len<,'th of miles, and which has been called Wilkes's Land, to commemorate the discover er's name. I5nt of all the explorers of the southern frozen ocean, the palm UM(|uestiona- bly belonys to Sir James Jioss, who penetrated farther towards the pule any other naviijator before or after, and made the only discoveries of extuiisivo land within the area boimded by the Antarctic Circle. On New Year's Day, 1841, the "Erebus," Ca]itain James Clark Iloss, and the "Terror," commanded by Francis Crozier, who died with Franklin in tlie Arctic Sea, crossed the Antarctic Circle, and after sustaininjjj many M'VtTe shocks in breakins? through the i)ack-icc, emerged on January 9 into a clear sea of great extent; but the fog and snow-showers were so thick that the naviga- tors seldom see more
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