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circumstances must be combined for its accomplishment ; 

 but I believe nevertheless that it will ultimately be accom- 

 plished."— pp. 184, 185. 



He goes on to say, " I am much mistaken in- 

 deed, if the north-west passage ever becomes the 

 business of a single summer; nay, I believe that 

 nothing but a concurrence of very favourable cir- 

 cumstances is likely even to make a single winter 

 in the ice sufficient for its accomplishment. But 

 this is no argument against the possibility of final 

 success ; for we now know that a winter in the ice 

 may be passed not only in safety, but in health and 

 comfort." This is very true, at least in his own 

 particular case, who has so many resources at his 

 command ; and no objection can be raised on the 

 additional expense in wear and tear, in provisions 

 and stores, and in the double pay of officers and 

 men, except by that particular class of persons 

 known by the name of utilitarians; the liberal 

 minded would not consider the increased expense 

 thrown away when the honour of the nation, the 

 interests of science, the improvement of navigation, 

 and the employment of our rising officers and best 

 seamen, are the objects contemplated. 



While on this point, it is too remarkable a cir- 

 cumstance to be omitted, that none of our early 

 navigators in the Polar regions ever passed a 

 winter in those regions, and rarely lost one of their 

 small and fragile barks of 50, 40, 30, and down 



