ACCOUNT 
OF A 
YOYAGE MADE ON BOARD 
THE 
RESOLUTION. 
In the year 1806, being at the Univer¬ 
sity of Edinburgh, an advertisement was 
put on the College Gate by Messrs P. 
and C. Wood, merchants, Leith, intima¬ 
ting that a surgeon was wanted for the 
ship Resolution of Whitby, Yorkshire, 
engaged in the North Sea whale-fishery. 
Impelled by curiosity, and by a still 
more powerful motive to visit the snow- 
clad coast of Spitzbergen, I applied; and 
was, after due examination, admitted 
surgeon for the voyage. 
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