Excerpt from Voyages and Discoveries in the Arctic Regions The, greater part of the work now offered to the Public, was originally prepared for publication in a weekly Periodical, and appeared some six months ago. A desire having been expressed for its republication in a separate form, the author has been induced to add two -chapters, embodying the most recent accounts of Arctic enterprise that have reached us and she would fain hope that this attempt to give, as it were, a bird's-eye view of so deeply interesting a subject, will secure some portion of public favour.'the arctic regions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.