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Title: A yacht voyage. Letters from high latitudes; being some account of a voyage, in 1856, in the schooner yacht "Foam," to Iceland, Jan Mayen, and Spitzbergen
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of, 1826-1902
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Publisher: New York, J. W. Lovell co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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y worthy of my wasting paper on it. When I tell you that it is the most northerly town in Europe, I think I have mentioned its only remarkable characteristic. It stands on the edge of an enormous sheet of water, completely landlocked by three islands, and consists of a congregation of wooden houses, plastered up against a steep mountain ; some of which being built on piles, give the notion of the place having slipped down off the hill half-way into the sea. Its population is so and so, —its chief exports this and that; for all which, see Mr. Murrays Handbook, where you will find all such matters much more clearly and correctly set down than I am likely to state them. At all events, it produces milk, cream—not butter—salad, and bad potatoes; which is what we are most interested in at present. To think that you should be all revelling this very moment in green-peas and cauliflowers. I hope you don't forget your grace be-fore dinner. I will write to you again before setting sail for Spitzbergen.
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LETTER IX. EXTRACT FROM THE MONITEUR OF THE 31 ST JULY. I HAVE received a copy of the Moniteur of the 31st July, containing so graphic an account of the voyage of the Reine Hortense towards Jan Mayen, and of the catastrophe to her tender the "Saxon",—in consequence of which the corvette was compelled to abandon her voyage to the Northward,—that I must forward it to you. (Translation.) ** Voyage of Discovery along the Banquise, north of Iceland^by La Reine Hortense. It fell to the lot of an officer of the French navy, M.Jules de Blosseville, to attempt to explore those distant parts, and to shed an interest over them, both by his discoveries and by his tragical and premature end. In the spring of 1833, on the breaking up of a frost, "La Lilloise", under the command of that brave officer,succeeded in passing through the Banquise nearly up to latitude 69°, and in surveying about thirty leagues of coast to the 5outh of that latitude. After having returned to her anchorage off the coast

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