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Excerpt from Voyage to the North Pole: In the Frigate the Syrene; Including a Physical and Geographical Notice Relative to the Island of Iceland <p>We were not long before we felt the effects of a piercing cold, which gave us reason to re et the mild, temperature of the Azores. Continual foul weatihr, which did not allow us for fifteen days to sail, except with lowered topsails, led the captain to conceive, that as the rigorous season was likely to be of longer continuance than usual, it was too soon to at. Tempt a passa e into the frigid zone; in consequence of this, he etermine to cruise about ten or twelve days in the lati tude of Cape Farewell, on the coast of Greenland. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>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.