^9^ Analysis Mr Scoreshy's Account of the Arctic Regions, 
sisting in their rendering the work more complete, though they 
are not of a nature to enhance its interest. 
The summing up of our opinion is, that the first volume of 
Captain Scoresby’s work contains a great number of facts on 
the navigation of seas encumbered with ice, which we should 
in vain seek elsewhere ; and the publication of a translation of 
this first volume would be very advantageous to navigation in 
The second volume, dedicated entirely to a description of all 
the processes of the whale-fishery, and its probable advan- 
tages, would perhaps be a more important publication than the 
first, should there be any intention of reviving in France this 
species of industry. The general seaman might overlook this 
second volume, but those who dedicate themselves to the fishery 
must study the first volume ; for it describes circumstances, of 
which the operations in the second are in fact only the conse-^ 
quences. 
It is our opinion, that the translation of the work should not 
appear in detached portions : it is a perfect and compact whole^ 
which ought to be respected. The translation and publication 
in question, do not appear of a nature to become an object of 
speculation. Not one person in France is engaged in the whale- 
fishery ; and the work would only be in demand among a small 
number of the curious, who could not derive from it any im- 
mediate profit, while it would scarcely command the attention 
of those to whom it would be most advantageous. 
But if the Government has any intention of reviving and 
encouraging the Whale-fishery, an art so long abandoned, that 
even traditional experience may be forgotten, the first step 
should be to publish the ^Vork of Captain Scoresby, where 
those inclined to speculate in this fishery, will find all the ope- 
rations brought to perfection by the experience of the people 
who trade most extensively in its produce. Those who fit out 
ships have no necessity to search elsewhere for information on 
their construction and equipment, or the capital necessary for 
their adventure ; and the Captains entrusted with the direction 
of the fishery, will here find all the practices and regulations 
necessary to insure success. 
(Signed) Bossily & Bossel, 
general 
Paris, 
31 . 1820 . 
