. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history, and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. ik' CLIMATC* voyages, he prosecuted a regular course of studyw which enriched his mind with liberal attainments, ana gave a new impulse to his native ingenuity an^ ardour. It was exceeding^ly to be regretted that any jealousies or official punctilios should have prevented government from intrusting the principal command of the Polar expedition to him who not only proposed
. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history, and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. ik' CLIMATC* voyages, he prosecuted a regular course of studyw which enriched his mind with liberal attainments, ana gave a new impulse to his native ingenuity an^ ardour. It was exceeding^ly to be regretted that any jealousies or official punctilios should have prevented government from intrusting the principal command of the Polar expedition to him who not only proposed it originally, but whose talents and science, joined to his activity, perseverance, and enthusiasm, afforded assuredly the best promise of its ultimate success. Hans Egede, a benevolent enthusiast, formed a plan of reclaiming the natives of Greenland from the enors of Paganism. After various ineffectual at- tempts, he at last procured, by subscription, the aUm of £2000, with which he purchased a vessel, and car- ried his family and forty settlers to Baal^s river, in the 64th degree of north latitude, where he landed on the 3d of July, 1721. He was afterward ap- pointed missionary, with a small salary by the Danish government, which occasionally granted some aid to the colony. During his stay, which lasted till 1736, he laboured with great zeal m his vocation. In 1767, the year before his death, he printed his Description ofGreenlandt in the Danish language, at Copenhagen. A translation of that work, much improved and en- larged, with useful additions by the editor, contains valuable information, tinged with a large portion of credulity. It is remarkable, that two centuries of extreme activity should have added so very little to our knowledge of the Arctic regions, llie relations of the earlier navigators to those parts possess an in- terest which has not been yet eclipsed. The voyage of Martens from Hamburgh to Spitzbergen may be cited as still the most instructive. But me bes
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