The attempts to reach the North Pole have cost many valuable lives; Willoughby and Hudson, Behring and Franklin, and many other brave mariners; but yet there are few expeditions more popular than those to "the Arctic," and we cannot but hope that it is still reserved for the British Navy after so many gallant attempts at length to reach the North Pole.
FOOTNOTES:
[56] Shelley.
[57] Campbell.
[58] Holmes.
[59] Bell.
[60] Hemans.
[61] Gunther, History of Fishes.
[62] Darwin, Coral Reefs.
[63] Abercromby, Seas and Skies in many Latitudes.