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splendour. There—fonr with your leave, my ridter, 7 will put come

trast tn preceding uauigators— there snow aud frost are bau- cehed;

and, catling over a calm sea, we may be wafted to a land

the habitable globe. 9ts productions and features may be without

example, ae the phenomena of the heauenly bodies undoubtedly are in

those undiscouered rolitudes. What may uot be expected tn a country of

eter- ual light’ 7 may there discover the woudnrous power which attracts

the needle and may regulate a thousand celestial obseruations that

require only this voyage to render thetr seeming eccentricities consistent

foreuer, 7 shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the right of a part of

the world never before visited, aud may tad a land never before

taprinted by the foot of man. “There are my enticements, and they are

cufficcent to couguer all fear of danger or death aud to ia- duce me to

commence thit labouriour voyage with the joy a child feels when he

embarks in a little Coat, with his holi- day mates, on an expedition of

discovery up his native river, But supposing all these conjectures to be

false, you cannot coutest the inestimable benefit which 7 shall confer ow

all mankind, to the last generation, by discoucring a parsage near the

pole to those countrice, to reach which at present 0 many mouths are

neguisite; or by ascertaining the secret of the magnet, which, % at all

possible, cam only be effected by an undertaking such a mine

There reflections have dispelled the agitation with which ) began my

letter, and 9 feel my heart glow with an euthu- siasm which elevates

me to heauen, for uothing contributes 0 much to tranguillize the mind

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