4322.8 Geog $518,36,3 вход 1875, June 3. $3.02 LONDON: Printed by S. & J. BENTLEY, WILSON, and FLEY, PREFACE. THE brief sketch of my brother's life which circumstances, explained in subsequent pages, enabled me to publish along with his own narrative of Arctic Discoveries, was generally considered as but a meagre development of the history of one, "in whom the world lost no common man." A naturally strong desire to present a more extended view of his character, his virtues, and his services, has led me to become I may more properly say the compiler than the Author of the following volume, which I submit to the public with a trembling anxiety, lest the intrinsic worth of my subject and materials should suffer depreciation from my inadequacy to the duty which I have undertaken. Ross-shire, April 1845. A. S. |