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voyages. It furnishes us with the first account a.d. 



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we have of the north and north-eastern parts of 

 Spitsbergen, and shows the difficulty of effect- 

 ing a passage round the Seven Islands. 



It brings us acquainted with a part of the 

 east coast of Greenland, before unknown, and 

 which no navigator was afterwards able to ap- 

 proach for two hundred years ; and it assists us 

 to trace, with tolerable accuracy, the position of 

 that great icy boundary, which, since Hudson's 

 day, at least, has extended from the Seven Islands 

 to Greenland. 



In 1816 a remarkable opening was observed 

 in this ice by Mr. Scoresby, whose enterprising 

 spirit at once determined him to take advantage 

 of it ; and he had thus the good fortune to 

 become the first to rediscover the coast, which, 

 for upwards of two hundred years had been 

 shut out from the navigator. 



In 1824 this coast was again approached, and 

 a portion of it surveyed, by the late Captain 

 Clavering, R.N., in H. M. ship Griper. 



