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were, together, with a force which could hardly be overcome ; 
and that rocks themselves may be suspended in the air. 
Gordonbank, 1 
December 9. 1820. ) 
Art. VIII. — Analysis of Mr Scoreshfs Account of the Arctic 
Regions^ being a Translaticm of the Official Report of 
MM, Rossily and Rossel, to Baron Portal, Minister of 
the French Marine 
In consequence of the letter in which your Excellency re- 
quests from M. Count de Rossily, Director of the Depot of 
Charts and Nautical Plans, a report on the different subjects 
treated in this work, and its probable utility to navigation and 
commerce, we, M. Le Chevalier de Rossel and I, have exa- 
mined it, and we can assure your Excellency, that for a long 
time we have not seen any nautical work containing more solid 
information, or the subject treated more systematically. 
The details into which we are about to enter, will enable your 
Excellency to judge of what importance it will be to dissemi- 
nate it among the seamen destined to navigate the northern 
seas, and also among the merchants who may be tempted to 
speculate in the whale-fishery. Both will here find all that an 
enlightened experience can communicate on the dangerous navi- 
gation of seas encumbered with ice, or on the advantages and 
risks of that fishery. 
The work consists of tw’o octavo volumes, of above 500 
pages, each containing one of the two distinct subjects announ- 
ced in the general title : The first volume embraces a geogra- 
phical and hydrographical description, the most complete hither- 
to published, of the countries and seas around the North Pole, 
while the second treats only of what is immediately connected 
with the whale-fishery and its products. 
* We have been indebted to Dr Traill for the translation of this very interest- 
ing document, "which has not been published in the original ; and "we trust it will 
give much satisfaction to our readers, to see that the high merit of Captain Scoresby 
has been well appreciated in a foreign country. — D. B. 
