CHAPTER V. 



COMMANDER CLAVERING AM) CAPTAIN SABINE, R.A. 



1822—1823. 



1. Journal of a Voyage to Spitzbergen and the East Coast 

 of Greenland, in His Majesty's Ship Griper, D. C. 

 Clavering, Esq., Commander. 



2. An Account of Experiments to determine the Figure of the 

 Earth by means of the Pendulum vibrating seconds in dif- 

 ferent latitudes ; as well as on some other subjects of Philo- 

 sophical Inquiry. By Edward Sabine, Captain in the 



Royal Artillery. 



It was considered expedient to introduce a brief 

 notice of this voyage, among those specially sent 

 into the Arctic Regions for the purposes of dis- 

 covery, and for two reasons : first, that Commander 

 Clavering was to be ordered to proceed to Spitz- 

 bergen, and thence to the East Coast of Greenland, 

 and that on the latter he succeeded to reach 

 a higher degree of latitude than any former or 

 subsequent navigator had effected: and secondly, 

 that he carried out, first in the Pheasant, and then 

 in the Griper, Captain (now Lieutenant- Colonel) 

 Sabine, who, very shortly after his return from the 



