A voyage to Spitzbergen / containing an account of that country, of the zoology of the North; of the Shetland Islands; and of the whale fishery

WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING
An Historical Account of the Dutch, English, and American Whale Fisheries; some Important Observations on the Variation of the Compass, &c.; and some Extracts from Mr. Scoresby’s Paper on “Polar Ice.”
BY JOHN LAING, SURGEON.
A NEW EDITION.
EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR. 1825.
PRINTED BY A. BALFOUR & CO.
JOHN R. M‘CULLOCH, Esq.
THIS LITTLE WORK IS INSCRIBED,
A SMALL TESTIMONY
THE ESTEEM AND GRATITUDE
HIS MUCH OBLIGED,
AND SINCERE FRIEND,