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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]]
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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 
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"Voyages to Arctic Regions" (Barrow)  [[strikethrough]] Men [[/strikethrough]] Mechins Inst

Seek "Barron Wrangel" who surveyed the Polar Sea as near Asia