ACCOUNT 



OF THE 



ARCTIC REGIONS, 

 CHAPTER I. 



ilEMARKS ON THE CELEBRATED QUESTION OF 

 THE EXISTENCE OF A SEA COMMUNICATION BE- 

 TWEEN THE ATLANTIC AND TACIFIC OCEANS, 

 BY THE NORTH; WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE 

 PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY IN THE NORTHERN 

 REGIONS. 



SECT. I. 



General Remarks indicaiing the Existence of a 

 Sea CQinmunication between the Atlantic and 

 Pacific OceanSf hy the North. 



Perhaps there is no question connected witli geo- 

 graphical science, which has been so long in agi- 

 tation, without being resolved, and so often re- 

 vived with the most sanguine expectations of suc- 

 cess, and then abandoned as hopeless, — as the 



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