Genre:

Reportage

Subjects:

Exploration, Hunting, Oceanography, Meteorology, Navigation, Physical Geography, Amateurism, Declinism

    Complains that, unlike the sailors of the Norwegian fleets, 'since the early part of this century when the Scoresbys [William (1760–1829) and William (1789–1857)] gained their fame in arctic exploration, it does not appear that any single observation tending to advance our scanty knowledge of the geography or meteorology of these northern regions has been placed on record by any British whaler' (200).