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meeting with enormous masses of drift-ice on her repeated endeavors to pene- 

 trate to the north-east, the " Germania " has been obliged to return, after reach- 

 ing the high latitude of 81° 5', and accurately surveying a small part of the 

 Greenland coast hitherto but imperfectly explored. An expedition on a more 

 extensive scale is to renew the attempt in 1869. 



A third route to the pole is no less strenuously recommended by M. Gustave 

 Lambert, a French hydrographer, who, having sailed through Bering's Strait in 

 a whaler in 1865, is persuaded that this is the right way to reach the problemat- 

 ical open North Sea, which, once attained, promises a free passage to the navi- 

 gator. Liberal subscriptions have been raised in Paris for the accomplishment 

 of his plan, and an expedition under his command will most probably set out 

 in 1869. 



Thus, after so many illustrious navigators have vainly endeavored to reach 

 the pole, sanguine projectors are still as eager as ever to attain the goal ; nor is 

 it probable that man will ever rest in his efforts until every attainable region 

 of the Arctic Ocean shall have been fully explored. 



