[36] "Account of Arctic Regions," i. 517.
[37] The anecdote is given with more detail at p. 67.
[38] "Attempt to Reach the North Pole," p. 115.
[39] "Life of Nelson," by Robert Southey, Esq., LL.D., Poet Laureate, p. 11.
[40] "Franklin's Footsteps," by Clement R. Markham, p. 65.
[41] "Franklin's Footsteps," by Clement Robert Markham, late of H.M.S. Assistance, p. 93.
[42] Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, 1787, p. 14, "The Twa Dogs."
[43] "My Schools and Schoolmasters; or, The Story of my Education," by Hugh Miller, fifth edition, 1856, pp. 321-323.
[44] "Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character," tenth edition, 1864, p. 183.
[45] "Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, R.A," by his son, W. Wilkie Collins, i. p. 222.