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time but were of permanent use. Without his numerous 
magnetic observations Professor Hansteen could not have 
constructed his first magnetic chart. Baffin's devoted 
zeal and untiring industry, his genius as an inventive 
observer, his gallantry and intrepidity, and his great 
services have secured for him a permanent and an honour- 
able place among the naval worthies of the Elizabethan 
era, side by side with Frobisher and Davis. 
