8 HANKS CKMMJHATIoy. 



maiiiicr. Hanks wrole a full aci-i»iiiit in liis Journal, whic-h was 

 coi)ie(l into several ])ul)licatioiis, thus bringing the island into 

 notii-e. 



On liSth August the vessel reached Iceland, and they remained 

 a niontli on shore. Their lour took in many oF the most remark- 

 able features, as Thiiigviilla, the (ieysers, llt^kla, the llvitae, etc. 

 Jianks was one of the iii-st. perhaps the first, to ascend lieiila, 

 which he did in a storm of \Mn(l, witli frost on the f^round, and 

 cold enougli to freeze the moisture in the air on their elothes. 

 The return from Iceland was leisurely, and it was not till 

 liJtli Xoveruber that Banks, Solander, and Dr. -Lind left Edin- 

 hurgli for London. 



Once more Banks travelled al)road ; in March 1773 he went to 

 Kotterdam, and attended a meeting of the JJatavian Society, where 

 he spoke of his wish to undertake a voyage towards the North 

 Pole. 



Tliis closed the career of Banks as a traveller, for liis journeys 

 tliroui;ii England, as to and from Bevesby to London, are not 

 adventurous enough to he ranked with his oversea experiences. 

 At the age of 30 this chapter of his life closed, and the remaining 

 forty-seven years fall within the province of my colleagues to 

 narrate. 



Select Bihliorjfaplvj. 



Hawkesworth, Joiix (1715 ?-73). An account of the voyages 

 . . . by Captain Cook . . . from the papers of J. Banks, Esq. 



London, 1773, 3 vols. 4to. 



Cook, Lvmes (1728-79). Captain Cook's Journal during his first 

 voyage round the world made in H.M. Bark ' Endeavour,' 

 1768-71 . . . with notes by W. J. L. Wharton. 



London, 1873. 8vo. 



Banks, A'^ Hon. Sir Joseph, Bt. (1743-1820). Journal . . . 

 during Ca|)taiu Cook's first voyage in H.M.S. 'Endeavour' 

 in 1768-71, etc., edited by Sir Joseph Hooker. 



London, 1896. 8vo. 



[Life in] Dictionary ol National Biographv, vol.iii. 129-133 



(1885), by B. D. J. 



Smith, EnwAitn (?). The life of Sir Joseph Banks, President of 

 the lioyal Society, etc. London, 1911. 8vo. 



Maiden, Joseph Henui (1859- ) Sir Jo^^eph Banks: the 

 ' Father of Au,trali;i..' Svdney, 1909. 8vo. 



TiioiL, Uno von (1746-1803), B-ef rcirande en resa til Island, 

 1772 . . . 1777. Tr. by J. II. Eorster from the Grerman 

 version, as 'Letters on Iceland . . , [with] an account of 

 the Island of Staffa, communicated by J.. Banks, etc' 



London, 1780. 8vo. 

 Republished in Pinkorton, Voyages, vol. i. 1808. 4to. 



