Full Title: The Possibility of Approaching the North Pole
Asserted. By the Hon. D. Barrington. A New Edition. With an
Appendix, containing Papers on the Same Subject, and on a
Northwest Passage. By Colonel Beaufoy, Illustrated with a Map of
the North Pole, According to the Latest Discoveries. New-York:
Published by James Eastburn & Co., 1818. [First printed in 1775
and 1776 as “Probability of Reaching the North Pole Discussed,”
this edition of Daines Barrington’s work includes the appendix
by physicist Mark Beaufoy.] THE POLAR TRACTS HONOURABLE DAINES
BARRINGTON. The following Tracts, relative to the possibility of
near approaches to the Pole of our own hemisphere, as likewise
of a communication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in
any Northern direction, were first published in 1775 and 1776.I
now think it right again to print them, because they contain
many well attested facts with regard to reaching high Northern
Latitudes, which are not to be found elsewhere, and have a
tendency to promote geographi