A NARRATIVE OF ARCTIC DISCOVERY, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. WITH THE DETAILS OF THE MEASURES ADOPTED BY HER MAJESTY'S WILLIAM SHOBERL, PUBLISHER, 20, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1850. ΤΟ LADY FRANKLIN, WHOSE NOBLE AND ENERGETIC EFFORTS TO RESCUE HER GALLANT HUSBAND AND HIS BRAVE COMPANIONS FROM THE PERILOUS POSITION IN WHICH THEY ARE PLACED, THROUGH ZEAL FOR THEIR COUNTRY'S GLORY, AND THE EXTENSION OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE, IT IS THE EARNEST PRAYER OF THE WHOLE CIVILIZED WORLD THIS VOLUME, IN WHICH HIS NAME STANDS PROUDLY PRE-EMINENT, IS Most Respectfully Bedicated. |