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The following pages contain, in an abridged and somewhat modified form, the substance of the first volume of captain (now the rev. Dr.) Scoresby's work on the Arctic Regions and the Whale - fishery, Edinburgh, 1820 with the omission of the third chapter on the Hydro graphical Survey of the Greenland Sea. It is now issued by the kind permlssion of the author; and a wider circulation may thus be secured for the interesting contents of his volumes than they could receive in their original and more costly form. Some few materials have also been collated from the valuable papers by the same author contributed to the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal.
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The following pages contain, in an abridged and somewhat modified form, the substance of the first volume of captain (now the rev. Dr.) Scoresby's work on the Arctic Regions and the Whale - fishery, Edinburgh, 1820 with the omission of the third chapter on the Hydro graphical Survey of the Greenland Sea. It is now issued by the kind permlssion of the author; and a wider circulation may thus be secured for the interesting contents of his volumes than they could receive in their original and more costly form. Some few materials have also been collated from the valuable papers by the same author contributed to the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal.
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