JOHN BARROW, Esq. F.R.S. 



(fee. &c'. &c. 



ADMIRALTY. 



My dear Friend, 



When engaged in the first Arctic expedition 

 (H.M.S. Plover, with my esteemed friend Captain 

 Moore) despatched from England in search of 

 H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror, (under 

 command of the gallant Sir John Franklin,) in the 

 equipment of which your honoured and lamented 

 father bore so prominent a part, I wrote letters to 

 my friends relating my first impressions of scenes 

 and incidents encountered in a remote corner of the 

 globe, during a long residence amongst an almost 

 hitherto unknown race of people. You saw some of 

 these letters, expressed approval of and interest in 



