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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ...with this Society. Staff-Commander J. E. Davis, B.n., said that had not Dr. Pelermann, in drawing the attention of the Royal Geographical Society to the subject of reaching the North Pole by the Spitzbergen route, drawn inferences and founded his arguments by a comparison with the Southern Polar Regions (where he, Staff-Commander Davis, had served under Sir James Ross), he should not have ventured to address the meeting, not being an Arctic mau; but as no Arctic man could fail to take a great interest in geographical discovery in the Antarctic Regions, so it might readily be believed that he took a deep interest in Arctic discovery, and having mixed much with men who had rendered themselves famous in Arctic travel, he had naturally imbibed some of their enthusiasm, and wished most earnestly to see an expedition start for the North next year. The President had drawn the attention of the Society to the necessity of an expedition to the Southern regions, to observe the transit of Venus in 1882, and he thought it absolutely necessary that men should be educated to meet that requirement, for the North is the School to prepare a man for the University of the South. In some respects Dr. Petermann was not happy in his comparison,--in some his arguments were sound; the South Pole (possibly continental) is thoroughly open to the great oceans; the North, on the contrary, on one side a mass of islands, the straits between which are affected by strong currents, but on all sides surrounded by land, and thus cut off from the influence of the great ocean: conditions as widely separated as the Poles themselves. On the other hand, no doubt exists but that large quantities of ice are formed in both in the winter near the Poles, which in spring breaks up and drifts...
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