R. W. Haskins on the Open North Polar Sea. 89 
In 1767 Samuel Standidge sailed from Hull, England, on 
board the ship British Queen, of which he was owner but not 
master, for the north sea: 
northern penetration by water. Capt. Jan ass Castricum, im 
the ship Jonge Jan, fished with success in latitude 81° 40’, m 
the northeast, with a fresh wind. Capt. Bateson, of the ship 
Whale, on June 14th of this year, was in north latitude 82 15’, 
e year 0 given, but sup- 
to be then recent—had been in latitude 82° 20’ north, and 
> that the sea was open. : 
ne This mass of testimony, it is seen, has been chiefly gathered 
= foreign languages, and been furnished by other than Eng- 
% , 
aud promulge the details of the voyages made by these people; 
a nce oa know not what pehechion of such abacae the 
7 Ove may be still unknown to us by having been lost. Certain 
_ 4,8 that many instances of such are found, scattered here and 
Te; which are not so fully authenticated as to seem deserving 
= g, Place here, and they have therefore been excluded. 
lice the concluding date of the foregoing list of proofs of an 
“tt Sea at the north pole, we have no evidence that ships have 
ww Stated that sea as they formerly did. Modern explorers, 
SECOND sERiEs, vou. XXV, NO. 73.—JAN., 1858. 
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