Historical view of the progress of discovery on the more northern coasts of America, from the earliest period to the present time (The family library)

North America where the continent borders upon the Arctic circle. The scenery is of the same grand and impressive character, and the adventurers were exposed to hazards if possible still more striking than those encountered by the bold explorers of the polar regions. Their investigations too have made us acquainted with numerous objects, not only of the highest interest to the zoological obsei-ver, but of great value as the materials of an extensive commerce. The present volume therefore, originally published in the same excellent collection, exhibiting a full and accurate view of all that is important in modern knowledge of the most remote territories of North A merica, may be considered as forming a sequel to the Polar Seas and Regions, and furnishing all that was wanting to a complete account of the whole series of northern discoveries by land and water. Of this work the historical and critical departments have been contributed by Patrick Fraser Tytler, Esq., the distinguished author of the History of Scotland, and the natural history by James Wilson, Esq., two gentlemen whose names, the publishers are confident, furnish a sufficient guarantee that the task committed to them has been executed with care. The high qualifications of Mr.
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