Identifier: sciencerecordcom1874beac (find matches)
Title: The Science record; a compendium of scientific progress and discovery
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Beach, Alfred Ely, 1826-1896
Subjects: Technology Industrial arts
Publisher: New York, Munn
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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early part of August met the United States steamer Congress at Disco, Greenland, from which vessel she received her final supplies. On the 24th of August, 1871, after purchasing Esquimaux dogs, skins, and other necessaries, GEOGRAPHY. 525 Captain Hall wrote his adieu to civilization from Tessinsack, Greenland, and sailed for the North Pole. The ship, according to the statement of the survivors,proceeded to the north through Smiths Sound, which, is
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The Burial of Captain Charles Francis Hall on Nov, 10, 1871. ...described as identical with the Polar Sea of Kane, dis-covered in 1853-5, and reached Robeson Channel, in which the highest latitude was attained, 820 16. The strait, it was found, extended north for about 45 miles, from 81 ° 44 to 526 SCIENCE RECORD. 82° 20. Beyond this was a lead of water, and then another ocean or bay, having on its western side land stretching as far as the eye could reach, and on the east another shore but dimly discernible. This expanse was free from ice,and is conjectured to be the north Polar Ocean, or a sound leading directly thereto. Many important circumstances indicated with great clearness that beyond this channel lay an open sea, for mild weather, fogs, and mists could come

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