THE FIRST NAVIGATOR. 
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The Polar Seas. 
situated at P ,Vht , C(dumi1 ® of tlie known world are Mount Parry, 
degrees from tin ^ fTp i° m ^ N ° rtil Eole ’ an<i Mount Ross, twelve 
a Hank space mark^ - 1 ° % Ley0n<1 tlllese limits our maps are mute ; 
ever succeed in T ' « 6Xtremity of the terrestrial axis. Will man 
predi s ,cy , b ' mier8? w,u * — J-% a. 
MW orbs, am) „i, p, . “t*”’ '*™ T6th J“ wiil appear amid 
limit of ke earth? ' 4> " ‘“Ser * tie extreme 
“ Vunieut annis 
Stecula sens quibus oceanus 
Vincula rerum laxet et iugens 
Patent tellus. Tetliysque novos 
etegat orbes, nee sit terris 
Ultune Thule." Medea. 
THe has been dearl^rSseT ^ald in f 0rder to a PP roac b the 
navigators have named the south noinf * /r ^ reason tha t 
Of the number of expe^LT ° f , Greei “, Cape Farewell, 
been fitted out at the cost r’ i ^ m ° St part En S llsh , which have 
f-n SterlU1& t0 
tie fete of the lamented Sir John FmnMm ““" n * 
tuT'X ** ~ 
Europe to Chin, ,nd the In*, n'f? nort l'® <s ‘ P 8 ”*? 8 I- 
of navigation at that period this US1(1 ® rm ? the elate, and the state 
record. Mdest on 
the son of the King Rodim , V | IA mrailar undertakings to 
Csher, the Norwegian in 87 H • *7* m tb ° sevent b century; to 
Magnus, in 1150. ' 5 &nd to tEe Princes Harold and 
Sebastian Cabot reached as high as > t, n , 
Hs sailors forced him to retrace his H ^ nsBa y>but a mutiny of 
Cortereal discovered T ,,i, a • , S ^°P S - In 1500, Gaspard de 
vSln^r-t “ ^“fI“Ze by S 
discovered the -TIT 1 
