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to the east of north towards Spitzbergen, and thence 

 with more of an easterly bend even beyond the seventy- 

 fifth degree of north latitude. The existence of a warm 

 stream in this direction has been confirmed still more 

 recently by two adventurous officers Lieutenant Julius 

 Payer, of the Austrian army, and Lieutenant Wey- 

 precht, of the German army who followed its path 

 last summer in a small sailing vessel hired by them- 

 selves, and state that they found open water from 

 east longitude 42 to east longitude 60, even beyond 

 the seventy-eighth parallel of north latitude, the 

 highest point they reached being north latitude 79, in 

 east longitude 43. A Eussian expedition under Prince 

 Alexis Alexandrovitch, of which the distinguished 

 savant. Von Mildendorf, had the scientific charge, was 

 about the same time exploring the Polar Sea between 

 Nova Zembla and Iceland ; and Von Mildendorf has 

 stated to the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg 

 that ' the corvette Wajag has proved the extension of 

 the Gulf Stream to the west coast of Nova Zembla, and 

 that we find it on the meridian of Banin Xoss (in east 

 longitude 43^) still of a width equal to two degrees of 

 latitude, and of a temperature of fifty- four degrees 

 Fahrenheit, cooling down only four or six degrees at 

 depths of thirty and fifty fathoms.' 



As if to remove all question as to his real opinion 

 the reviewer immediately adds that he fully accepts, 

 not only the great body of facts so ' industriously cor- 

 related by Dr. Petermann, but the inference Dr. Peter- 

 mann draws from them that an attempt to penetrate 



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