THE CHEVALIER DE FREMINVILLE 



TO THE EDITOR. 



Brest, June 19, 1819. 



Ax a time when the Literati of Europe are waiting with 

 anxiety the result of the new expedition which the English 

 government have sent to explore the passage to the North 

 Pole, and to resolve the problem, whether Greenland be an 

 island ; it may be presumed that a brief relation of a Voyage 

 to the North Sea, in 1806, performed by some officers of the 

 French marine, of whom I was one, will prove acceptable 

 and interesting. 



This expedition, after encountering a number of difficulties, 

 penetrated to latitude 80* ; and it will be observed, that the 

 attempt made by the English last year could only penetrate 

 those seas to the latitude of 80' 32". In the course of our 

 voyage, the various interesting incidents that occurred, par- 

 ticularly at the Island of Iceland, will render this brief 

 narrative, I venture to affirm, not only worthy of observation, 

 but highly interesting. 



