The FIRST CROSSING 



of SPITSBERGEN 



Being an Account of an Inland Journey of Exploration and 

 Survey, with Descriptions of several Mountain Ascents, of Boat 

 Expeditions in Ice Fjord, of a Voyage to North -East -Land, 

 the Seven Islands, down Hinloopen Strait, nearly to Wiches 

 Land, and into most of the Fjords of Spitsbergen, and of an 

 almost complete circumnavigation of the main Island. By 



Sir William Martin Conway 



M.A., F.S.A., F.R.G.S., Sometime Roscoe Professor of 

 Art, University College^ Liverpool 



With Contributions by J. W. Gregory, D.Sc. 



A. Trevor-Battye, and 



E. J. Garwood 



Together with Eight Coloured Plates reproduced in facsimile from 

 Sketches by H. E. Conway, Two Maps, and about One Hundred 

 Full-Page and Text Illustrations from Photographs and Sketches 



MDCCCXCVII 



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