the polar seas. 
adn ®ced northT ^Ta ^ in 1853 > and 
kmperatum TChieli }ltl „, i ^ ,on ^^S 63 diawn )>y dogs; the mean 
Wow sere, M , t <°*J *&** 
i ole they found two F ■ ' e ° rees ' -^t eleven degrees from the 
Jben an” immense gl^^Tdf^ 8 ’ caDcd Etah aud Peterovik, 
Morton, discovered beyond tbc • cond itcted by Lieutenant 
channel deg "* of latitude, an open 
callows, ducks, WrdS ’ ««•« of 
piercing cries. Seals (®S-Iu nio v !l ,? e igMed tLem h J their shrill, 
ascending the hanks, they met wfth flow ^ ^ ““g ic0 ‘ In 
Hesperus, & c. On the 24 th of June M ™ g . plants > SUu h as Lychnis, 
archc, which had before this ^ottheAnt- 
Independence, situated beyond eighty T a * S ° Uth P ° le 0n Ca P e 
stretched the open sea . oTthett J 8 *** T ° «" ^rth 
Kennedy Channel, which seemed to W^f ® bauk of the 
the principal peak rising from tine it * a ° bain ° f «ains, 
W dS . “ amed Mount Parry. The exnedit ^ 1° ^ thousand feet, which 
and r eac hed the port 3 UppernaS "V towards the south 
t/uL 7 iVCd ? b ° ard 2 Am^LthT D ?K^ er ’ Wb - 
J his sufferings, from which he never unite - ., Kauo ’ wakened 
We cannot conclude this rapid sketch ! V6red ’ died in 1857 . 
expeditions to the Arctic Polo without T with the 
g-at and singular mterest. wtn 0 ^n T fact of 
themseives of examining the rocks PP 68 have Resented 
l° h ’ J t has been found that great numbe 'iT™ adj ' omin g the North 
^ ca.se in MelX In d Tfl to the c oal measures. 
Under the ice which covers the,! f lnnce Patrick’s Island. 
a 1 the fossil vegetable d'bris which in K,ands c °al exists, with 
shows that in the coal period of » i UVai ' iabl y accompany it. This 
with the rich and abuLrt yiS^’ a ^ PoIe was covered 
coal-fields of the present day ° a ‘J 0n ’ WL ° Se remaina constitute the 
he temperature of these regions P ™™ 8 t0 demonstr ation that 
h^tory, equal to that of eqtatorifo peri ° d ° f the earth’s 
; : he t 
St tLe , S ° llC0Vered b j the polfri^Let * ** 
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