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[[underlined]] Kane's Open polar here accounted for [[/underlined]] [[This section is covered by a large X]] Said Mr Scoresby the younger an intelligent navigator of the Greenland seas to Sir Joseph Banks I observed on my last voyage (1817) about two thousand square Leagues of (18000 square miles) of the surface of the Greenland Seas included between the parallels 74° & 80° perfectly void of ice, all of wh. had disappeared within the last 2 years. [[This section is covered by a large X]] Voyages to the Arctic Regions by John Barrow (Mechanic Inst Book) [[encircled]] 14 [[/encircled]] [[end page]] [[start page]] Seek "Beechey's Voyage to the North Pole" [[left margin]] Ordered [[/left margin]] "Chronological History of Voyages into the Arctic Regions" [[strikethrough]] probably [[/strikethrough]] by John Barrow [[This section is covered by a large X]] Sir Joseph Banks largely contributed personally & by purse for the promotion of sciences & the arts & yet no Biographical sketch of his life [[encircled]] 17 [[/encircled]] "Voyages to Arctic Regions" (Barrow) [[strikethrough]] Men [[/strikethrough]] Mechins Inst Seek "Barron Wrangel" who surveyed the Polar Sea as near Asia