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so that you will recognize them when you see 

 them, as readily and surely as a stranger entering 

 the British Channel can recognize St. Michael's 

 Mount, or the Lizard, or Rame Head, or Portland, 

 or Bolt Head, or the Isle of Wight. From Cape 

 Britannia you have 500 miles of unknown but 

 probably existing north and north-cast coast line 

 of Greenland to travel over till you find yourself 

 at Cape Bismark : thence a few miles south and 

 you may rest in Ardencaplc Inlet having com- 

 pleted your 6300 miles journey round the whole 

 coast of the Arctic sea. But that unexplored 

 300 miles of Ellesmere Land and Grinnel Land 

 from Belcher Channel to Cape Alfred Ernest, and 

 that 500 miles of North and East Greenland ! 

 Surely Austria, Germany, America, and England 

 will continue their great work of Arctic ex- 

 ploration : and may we not hope that happier 

 times will soon come, when France and Russia will 

 join in the amicable rivalry not for the mere 

 object, or perhaps not at all for the object, of 

 reaching the north pole, but to explore the still 

 unexplored Soo miles of coast line of the Arctic 



