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Excerpt from The Marion Expedition to Davis Strait and Baffin Bay, Vol. 3: Under Direction of the United States Coast Guard, 1928, Scientific Results Our knowledge regarding the regional distribution of the ice, its state, behavior, and paths of drift has been accumulated over a long period of years; first, through the early voyages of exploration as maritime countries searched and pressed on for new territorial possessions and trade enrichment. These masters and navigators, finding the northern regions so commonly inaccessible, mainly on account of the dangers and barriers of ice, naturally recorded their experiences, gradually building up a history of the subject. Many of the early explorers were also endowed with scientific attainments and a keen appreciation of the value of accumulating all possible knowledge on the ice problems of the Arctic. The development of science later led to combining voyages of exploration with those hav ing scientific objects and finally, in the more recent pages of history, we find expeditions setting forth equipped with excellent laboratories and a highly trained scientific staff, solely to gather knowledge free from economic bias. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.