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the Rescue, having been separated from her consort 

 in a gale to the southward of Cape Farewell, did 

 not reach the termination of the voyage until the 

 7th of October, 1851. 



Dr. Kane concluded his narrative of the "First 

 Grinnell Expedition" with expressing the hope that 

 he might obtain another opportunity to establish 

 the justice of his conviction, founded upon many 

 intelligent and conclusive reasons, that Sir John 

 Franklin could yet be found by further explorations 

 and researches. This expectation was destined to 

 be realized, as the renowned annals of the " Second 

 Grinnell Expedition" have since amply demonstrated. 



Dr. Kane's chief employment, after his return from 

 his first Arctic expedition, was the preparation of a 

 record of his adventures for the press. This work 

 was published in handsome style by the Harpers ; 

 and although it is denominated by him merely a 

 "Personal Narrative," it is also interspersed and 

 enriched with many valuable details of a descriptive 

 and scientific character. It is a production of great 

 ability; superior, indeed, in a literary point of view, 

 to the narrative of his second expedition, because 

 the subject was then fresher, his own powers were 

 less exhausted, and his leisure to make researches 

 during the cruise was more ample, than when the 

 chief care and responsibility of an expedition rested 



