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worthy of remark that, among the many labored 

 reviews which have appeared of Dr. Kane's Narra- 

 tive of his expedition, in which all the preceding 

 facts are minutely and boldly described by him, only 

 a single journal of eminence has taken an unfavor- 

 able or a censorious view of his attempt to punish 

 this dangerous defiance of established and essential 

 authority on the part of the deserter.* 



Having thus surveyed the life, described the 

 genius, and vindicated the fame of this remarkable 

 man, we may fitly conclude our task by quoting an 

 admirable passage from that polished and classical 

 eulogy which Christian eloquence has so impress- 

 ively uttered over his tomb : 



" Elisha Kent Kane, a name now to be pronounced 

 in the simple dignity of history, was bred in the 

 lap of science and trained in the school of peril, that 

 he might consecrate himself to a philanthropic pur- 

 pose to which so young he has fallen a martyr. The 

 story of his life is already a fireside tale. Multi- 

 tudes, in admiring fancy, have retraced his foot- 

 prints. ISTow, that that brief career is closed in 

 death, we recur to it with a mournful fondness, from 



* See the North British Review for January, 1857. The article 

 was republished in the American Eclectic Magazine, edited by W. H. 

 Bid woll, in the April number, 1857. 



