90 ' Dr. Atkin on preserving Health. 
rally intereftrng. The mod remarkable and 
ufeful account of fuccefs in this important point, 
perhaps any where to be met with, has been 
afforded by that celebrated and much-regretted 
navigator Captain Cook; an account which 
was juftly thought worthy of the moft honour¬ 
able approbation a Philofophical Society could 
bellow. From fimilar fources, relations of 
voyages and travels by plain, unprejudiced men, 
1 have colledled fome other fadts, probably at 
prefent forgotten or difregarded, which appear 
to me capable of fuggelling feveral firiking and 
important obfervations relative to the prefer- 
vation of health in particular circumftances. 
Thefe with a brief commentary and fome gene¬ 
ral refledtions, I beg leave to fubmit to your 
confederation. 
Towards the beginning of the lad century, 
feveral voyages of difcovery were made in the 
Northern Seas; and the Greenland whale-fifhery 
began to be purfued with ardour by various 
European nations. Thefe two circumftances 
have given rife to various inftances of wintering 
in the dreary and defolate lands of high northern 
latitudes; and the furprizing difference of fuc¬ 
cefs attending thefe attempts muft ftrike every 
reader. 
The firft remarkable relation of this kind 
that i have found, is that of the wintering of 
Captain Mo.ick, a Dane, in Hudfon’s Bay, 
* latitude 
