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by inverted commas, and by personally mentioning the individual 
who supplied the account. 
The various observations made on board the Hecla during the 
voyage, have been carefully collected into tables on the model of 
those of Wales and Bayly, by Captain Sabine, to whom I am in- 
debted for the arrangement of nearly the whole of the Appendix, 
and for the superintendence of that part of the work during its 
progress through the press. I feel it no less a duty than a pleasure 
to acknowledge that, in the performance of this task, Captain Sabine 
has added another to the many obligations I owe him, for his va- 
luable advice and assistance during the whole course of this voyage, 
to the credit of which his individual labours have so essentially 
contributed. Of the manner in which the subject of natural his- 
tory, contained in the Appendix, has been treated by those gen- 
tlemen who did me the favour to undertake the examination and 
description of the specimens brought home by the Expedition, it 
does not become me to speak; but I may be permitted to offer 
them my best acknowledgments for the very handsome and ready 
manner in which they rendered me their assistance on this oc- 
casion. 
. The Drawings made by Lieutenants Beechey and Hoppner were put 
into the hands of skilful engravers, soon after the arrival of the ships 
in the River, such of them being selected for publication as were 
considered most likely to afford interest or entertainment. It must 
be confessed, however, that there is little in the scenery of the Polar 
regions on which the art of the painter can be exercised with ad- 
vantage ; and the opportunities were necessarily the less frequent 
on the late voyage, in consequence of the length of time which we 
