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was the infatuation attending the project, that the historian 

 of that failure takes leave of his subject with recommending 

 further trials in Chesterfield's Inlet or Repulse Bay. 



The discredit thrown on the plan by the attempts to 

 penetrate to India by a north-east passage, will not be 

 brought forward as an inducement to make any further 

 exertions in that direction ; and I have little doubt on my 

 mind, that the design of sailing to the North Pole, in the 

 intent of making that a way to India, if now put in execu- 

 tion, will not be repeated soon. 



