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amidst perils and hardships and (more difficult for them, 

 and such as they, to bear) perhaps long periods of forced 

 inaction, by the thought that wherever the sea rolls, from 

 west to east, from their frozen north even unto our, from 

 them, remotest south — there are English-speaking men — 

 aye, and others too, for science binds men of different 

 nations together — to look upon their devotion with pride, 

 and to whom the news of their safety and success would be 

 a triumph and a subject of heartfelt thanksgiving. May 

 such be the result. With these remarks, gentlemen, I will 

 now take the chair, which, as your President, I hope to fill 

 on many future occasions. 



