FRANKLIN'S SECOND LAND EXPEDITION. 



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small hut erected by himself, where he collected fifteen 

 hundred specimens of plants, and two hundred birds and 

 quadrupeds, besides insects. These, though points of 

 minor interest, when compared with the grand objects 

 of the expeditions, serve, nevertheless to connect the 

 individuals whose names they distinguish, by many 

 links of sympathy and esteem, with unobtrusive thou- 

 sands who can admire where they cannot imitate. 



MUSK OX. 



