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have discovered the law of universal gravitation, so that it would have m

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is world. You may remain the extraordinary calculator which you are, give yourself up entirely to the immense work to which yo

an eternal gratitude,

, according to report, a singular sympathy for J.T. Maston

o which this rich American widow had r

cted results, briefly o

lude according to Maltebrun, Roclus, Saint-Ma

ing the ice-covered islands of

umerous islands, such as the islands of Sabine,

d, Southampton, James-Sommerset, Boothia-Felix, Melville, and other parts nearly unknown. Of this great area, cr

be called the Arctic Highlands, given names to capes, to mountains, to gulfs, to bays, etc. But beyond this 84th degree is mystery. It is the terra incognita

he as yet undiscovered countries around the North Pole up at auction sale, and an American socie

ghts under the claim of colonization or the opening of commercial markets. This code was not acceptable to all, and the Polar region had remained without inhabita

altimore tried to send a projectile to the moon, hoping to obtain a direct communication with our satellite. Was it not enterprising Americans who furnished funds for this undertaking? Large amounts were

trician want to unite the scattered currents over the surface of the globe into one inexhaustible spring of heat and light; should a bold engineer conceive the idea of putting the excess of Summer temperature into large reservoirs for use during the Winter in our then frigid zone

going to be sold at auction for the benefit of the highest and final bidder, particularly when no publi

idea could "only be found in the brai

the two continents, to the European publications, to the African, Oceanic, Asiatic, and at

abitants o

e could not heretofore have been sold at auction for the v

by navigators of different

Parry, in July, 1847, on the twenty-eighth

edition of Sir John Georges Nares, in May, 1867, on the

American expedition under Lieut. Greely, in May, 1882, on

x degrees must be considered an undivided domain among the different states of the glo

Practical Association, representing officially the American Union. This Company intends to purchase the said country according to the common law, which should then give them an absolute right of proprietorship to the continent, islands, i

auction for the benefit of the highest and last bidder. The date of the sale is set for the 3d of

Temporary Agent for the North Polar Practic

ved to be fairly considered, and they pointed to the fact that the newly-founded company did not in any way appeal to the public for pecuniary help, but was willing to do everything with its own capital. It was with its own money tha

he United States should give possession of the country, the Company wanted a regular title to it without trouble about the matter in the future. It was unjust to blame them in any way, as in such an affair too many precautions cannot be taken. Besides, the circular had a paragraph which provided for all future chances. This pa

ography or meteorology of a country like this one to be sold at auction?

sed it with a will. One paper in Philadelp

ne comet will strike this world under such conditions that its blow will produce geograp

y serious people. In any case it was not likely that the would

hinks the precession of the equinox will in time favor the

fies the direction of the axis of our sp

ecession of the equinox, combined with the movement of the earth's axis, will be such as to modify in a long period the

case, is not a lapse of 12,000 years necessary before Vega becomes our polar star in consequence of t

years it will be time to make preparations, an

actical Association had never counted on this modification of climate due to the precession of the equinox. In fact,

was not even known where the document came from. It was brought to the offices of the New York newspapers by a certain William S. Forster, a codfish dealer of Baltimore, a member of the house of Ardrinell & Co. Everyt

g their personnel an absolute mystery, their intention was clearl

rd. In regard to the other navigators of the northern seas they stopped far short of the above-mentioned point-such as Payez, in 1874, to 82° 15' north of the land of Francis Joseph, of New Zemble; Leout, in 1870, to 72°74' above Siberia; De Long in the Jeanette expedition, in 1879, to 78° 45' around the islands whi

hat these regions were not yet known geographically, belonged to no one and therefore belonged to everyone. But it could be foreseen that the adjoining States at least would consider these regions as the prolongation of their own possession towards the north and would consequently claim the right of ownership. Their pretensions would have more justice than those of discoverers who operated upon the whole of the Arctic coun

uch as those of any countries could be were six in number-A

discoveries made by their ma

ldren had taken part in the expeditions sent o

ourageous companions, would it not be unfair to forget them. But despite all this France did not care to interfere in this commercial rather than scientific matter, and she abandoned all her rights for a share of the polar pie. The same of Germany. It had sent since 1671 the Hamburg expedition of Frederic Martens to the Spitsbergen, and in 1869 and '70 the expeditions of the Ge

ouktchis, who inhabited the old Russian Alaska and who became Americans in 1867. These people, in reality the real aborigines, had nothing at all to say about the matter. And how could these poor wretches have said anything, as they did not even have any sum of money, no matter how small, with which to pay for the land which the North Polar Prac