the Specific Gravity of Scotch Barley and Bigg . ITT 
to you. And if any gentleman can suggest any alteration or 
improvement, I shall feel indebted to him. Where truth and 
science are concerned, there ought to be no jarrings from party- 
spirit, envy, or interested motives ; but candour, whether in 
confessing errors, or being open to conviction, and a virtuous 
emulation, which is the best stimulant of a philosopher, should 
animate all who wish to benefit the public, and obtain a well- 
earned reputation. 
I write this early in the morning, being obliged to attend a 
Committee of the House of Commons, which will plead my ex- 
cuse for verbal inaccuracies. I remain, Sir, yours, &c. 
George Skene Keith. 
Edinburgh, May 16. 1821. 
Art. XXX. — Analysis of a Journal of a Voyage for the Disco- 
very , Sfc. of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the 
Pacific , in the years 1819-20. — By Captain W. E. Parry, 
R. N., F. R. S. Lond. 1821., 4to., pp. 479-, with 20 Plates 
and Charts ; and of 
A Journal of a Voyage of Discovery to the Arctic Regions. By 
Alexander Fisher, Surgeon, R. N. 8vo. pp. 320. 
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Jl he appearance of Captain Parry’s great work, and of the 
less aspiring narrative of Mr Fisher, has at length quieted the 
impatience, and gratified, we trust, the highest expectations of 
the public. The desire of studying the details of this remark- 
able voyage, and of knowing the occurrences of a year’s resi- 
dence amidst perennial ice, and in a region to which the har- 
dy Esquimaux have scarcely dared to extend their summer ex- 
cursions, was felt with equal intensity in every part of civilized 
Europe : And even in'countries where the triumph of our naval 
skill over difficulties hitherto deemed unsurmountable, could not 
be expected to excite much sympathy,— -even there the love of 
science directed every eye to the new domains which were thus 
brought within the pale of her research. The circumnavigation 
of the Globe through an open sea, though accompanied with all 
vol. v. no. 9. JULY 1821. 
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