A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN; CONTAINING AN Account of that Country, OF THE ZOOLOGY OF THE NORTH; OF THE SHETLAND ISLES; AND OF THE WHALE FISHERY.
Reading edition
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.
TO
JOHN R. M‘CULLOCH, Esq.
THIS LITTLE WORK IS INSCRIBED,
AS
A SMALL TESTIMONY
OF
THE ESTEEM AND GRATITUDE
OF
HIS MUCH OBLIGED,
AND SINCERE FRIEND,
THE AUTHOR.
ADVERTISEMENT.
The Journal I kept when on board the Resolution in 1806, is taken as the basis of the subsequent little Work. It may, however, be looked upon as containing the observations I made both in 1806 and 1807, as I have engrossed into the Narration whatever I observed of consequence the following year.
Diagram of the Arctic Regions.
L. Schonberg’s Lithogy