[6] Hearne's Journal, pp. 357, 368. [7] Hearne's Journal, pp. 364, 365. [8] Hearne's Journal, p. 442. [9] Hearne's Journal, p. 442, 443, 444, 445, 446. [10] Ibid, p. 445. [11] Barrington and Beaufoy, pp. 21, 51. [12] Ibid, pp. 25, 61. [13] Ibid, pp 25, 32, 37, 61. [14] _From the National Intelligencer of Sept. 30, 1824._ "POLAR SEAS.――The fact that there are open seas round both the earth's poles, has received strong corroboration within the last few months. We have now a letter on our table from a naval officer at Drontheim, who notices the fact that Captain Sabine had good weather, and reached eighty degrees and thirty-one minutes north latitude, without obstruction from the ice; so that the expedition might easily have proceeded farther had its object so required. We have also had the pleasure to meet recently with a British officer who, with two vessels under his command, last season penetrated to seventy-four degrees twenty-five minutes south latitude, in the antarctic circle, which is about three degrees beyond Cook's utmost limit. There he found the sea perfectly clear of ice, and might have prosecuted his voyage towards the pole, if other considerations had permitted. There was no field ice in sight towards the south; and the water was inhabited by many finned and hump-backed whales; the longitude was between the south Shetland Islands, lately discovered, and Sandwich land: this proves the former to be an Archipelago (as was supposed) and not a continent. The voyage is remarkable as being the utmost south upon record; and we hope to be favoured with other particulars of it. At present we have only to add, that the variation of the needle was extraordinary, and the more important as they could not readily be explained by the philosophical principles at present maintained on the subject." _Literary Gazette._ [15] Barrington and Beaufoy, p. 74. [16] Purchas, vol. 1, p. 479. [17] Hearne's Journal, p. 7. [18] Barrington and Beaufoy, p. 36.――Dr. Birch's history of the Royal Society, vol. et seq. [19] Bar. p. 101. [20] Barrington and Beaufoy, pp. 25, 124. [21] At the mouth of St. Peter's river, in winter, it is as much colder than at Sacket's Harbour, as Sacket's Harbour is colder than Mobile, although St. Peter's is west and Mobile south of Sacket's Harbour, at nearly equal distances. [22] Barrington and Beaufoy, p. 74.――Ross' Voyage, vol. 1, p. 52, London, 1819. [23] Darwin's Botanic Garden. [24] Ross' Voyage, v. 1, p. 175. [25] Ross' Voyage, v. 1, p. 110. [26] Ross' Voyages, v. 1, pp. 71, 135, 199, 206. [27] Mackenzie states, "that sometimes the land _looms_, so that there may be a great deception in the distances."――Mackenzie's Voyage, p. 11, New-York, 1802. [28] Ross' Voyage, v. 2, p. 4, London, 1819. [29] Ross' Voyage, v. 2, p. 119. [30] Physical World, p. 72. CHAPTER VI.