Kane, Elisha Kent:

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ARCTIC EXPLORATIONS: THE SECOND GRINNELL EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN, 1853, '54, '55. Kane, a U.S. naval surgeon, was a member of the unsuccessful first rescue expedition which searched for Franklin in 1850-1851, financed by the American merchant-businessman, Henry Grinnell. This is Kane's account of the second expedition funded by Grinnell for the same purpose. "Kane was the commander of the Advance on this expedition, also financed by Henry Grinnell. Although Franklin was not found, the explorers were able to gather much information about the people, geography, and natural science of the region. Kane, passing up Smith Sound at the head of Baffin Bay, advanced into the enclosed sea which now bears the name of Kane Basin, thus establishing the Polar route of many future Arctic expeditions. Here the expedition passed two winters, and attained what was to remain for sixteen years the highest northern latitude reached by explorers., 80 35' N" - Hill.The "P.B. Olney" of Oxford, Massachusetts who owned this copy was likely Peter Butler Olney, a lawyer and briefly District Attorney of New York, as well as the brother of Grover Cleveland's influential Secretary of State, Richard Olney.

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