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ginal owners,—of the great advantages of a steam-engine in the 
midst of a floe of ice, and of the incalculable benefit of the pro¬ 
noun we, when speaking of the discoveries of other people. 
These, and many other tilings, we acknowledge ourselves guilty 
of having committed, but we did not expect that we should have 
been taunted, for the neglect and indifference, which we have 
shown for the valuable and important discoveries during the 
embedding of Captain Ross, for the period of three years within 
the regions of thick-ribbed ice ; and moreover for the occasional 
ridicule, which we have presumed to throw over some of the 
most memorable actions of the expedition. 
In regard to the doubts which we expressed, respecting the 
discovery of the true position of the magnetic pole, we have been 
favoured with an official communication from a member of the 
Royal Society, transmitting us a copy of the Memoir on the 
Position of the Magnetic Pole, as drawn up by Commander 
Ross, and read to the fellows of the Society on the 19th December 
1833, accompanied at the same time with the request, that we 
would either incorporate it with the present work, or publish it in 
a future edition. The latter not being feasible from the manner 
in which the work is published, no other alternative was left for us 
than to reject it altogether, (the whole of the work having gone 
to press,) or to give it to the public in a Supplemental Part. In 
justice to the highly talented individual by whom the memoir 
was drawn up, and that the public might be put in possession of 
the most genuine and authentic information regarding the most 
important of all the discoveries, which were made during the 
whole of the expedition, we resolved to adopt the latter plan, 
especially as in that very memoir, the opinion, which we have 
expressed in the body of the work, touching the participation o, 
even interference of Capt. Ross in any of the principal disco¬ 
veries, is fully corroborated, as well as the erroneous statements 
which were given by him to the Committee of the House of Com¬ 
mons, as far as regarded the discovery of the position of the 
magnetic pole. 
Although it immediately transpired, after the arrival of 
Capt. Ross, that the avowed purpose of the expedition had not 
