IN no quarter of the globe does the seaman or the traveller meet with more dangers and difficulties in his path, whether it be of enterprise or discovery, than in the Arctic Regions, or those lands and seas which are comprised within a circle, drawn on the chart at a distance of 234° from the North Pole.
Within these icy limits is contained the eagerlysought problem of centuries,-the North-West Passage; that question which Sir Martin Frobisher, even in his day, considered as "the only great thing left undone in the world," and which has ever since baffled all attempts at solution, though pursued with unceasing zeal.
To these barren solitudes the attention, not only