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ENGLAND seems ready to resign the position she once held as chief of all the competitors in Arctic exploration. Our flag has been carried within 7(1/2 degrees of the North Pole; our seamen have forced from the ice-bound straits which lie to the north of America the secret of the North-Western Passage; and from the days of Scoresby until those of Franklin we have been foremost in scientific researches within the dreary Arctic wastes. But now the answer to all who would emulate the deeds of a Parry or a Ross, a Beecher or a Franklin, is the stereotyped cui bono. A business account of the probable gains of an Arctic journey must be rendered before England will send men or ships to the Polar seas.
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PROCTOR, R. The German and Swedish Expeditions to the Arctic Regions . Nature 1, 312–313 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/001312a0
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