. Peter Parley's kaleidoscope : or, Parlor pleasure book : consisting of gleanings from many fields of the curious, the beautiful, and the wonderful . TUB OPES POT. AK 8EA, I) 18 COVERED BY EASE! EXPEDITION. THE POLAR REGIONS i i ^^^HE history of Man upon the Sea, including his enterprise,\P\ -nv his discoveries, and his disasters upon that element, would^tv form a library of adventure, courage, vicissitude, andsuffering, which would surpass all the tales of imaginary won-der and romance. The details of the attempts to discover apassage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, through the ArcticOcean
. Peter Parley's kaleidoscope : or, Parlor pleasure book : consisting of gleanings from many fields of the curious, the beautiful, and the wonderful . TUB OPES POT. AK 8EA, I) 18 COVERED BY EASE! EXPEDITION. THE POLAR REGIONS i i ^^^HE history of Man upon the Sea, including his enterprise,\P\ -nv his discoveries, and his disasters upon that element, would^tv form a library of adventure, courage, vicissitude, andsuffering, which would surpass all the tales of imaginary won-der and romance. The details of the attempts to discover apassage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, through the ArcticOcean, would fill volumes of intensely interesting history. HUD-SON, Button, Davis. Cook, in earlier days, and Ross, Parry,Franklin, and others more recently, have displayed among thesefrozen seas, a skill, daring, and perseverance in the highest degree [488] THE POLAR REGIONS 489. SCENE IN TUE POLAR SEA! heroic. The battles of chivalry, with knights clad in steel andmonsters armed with magic, were on the land, where man ismaster : but these voyages were battles on the sea — the elementwhich belongs to the They were in a climate which freezesthe blood ; where water becomes rocks, and rocks mountains, whichmove on the surface of the waters ; where night often reigns forhalf the year; where strange meteors dance and whisper in theair ; where even the compass, the sailors appointed guide, forgetsits allegiance, and dips and wanders as if drawn within the spellof an unseen and unknown god. It is in these regions, that thesegallant men, shaming the chivalry of the middle ages, pursuedtheir high career. Two of these, Hudson and Franklin, have given up their livesin these noble ventures. The fate of the latter has excited the 490 THE POLAR REGIONS. sympathy of generous minds throughout the world. In 1845, hewent in command of an expedition to pursue the rou
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