Overland Expedition To The North Pole

the celebr&ted arclic navigator, has recent!}' submitted to the English governmenl a plan for a new polar exploration beyond Spitzbergen. He proposes to have the crew arrive there towards the end of summer, and await the v.inter. - For fie months in the year the Arctic sen s c:v:::í t llilk and CaPu iloss proposes crossing it on a sledge, in quest of he archipelago, that is upposed to exist at the pole. The plan is an exceedingly bold one, and piesents iv.any material difïicuhies, especially in tl'.e Tieans of supporting the animáis who will drag the sledges. But Capt. Rossseoms to have taken all these matters into consideration, and the British government, not )roneto pncourage chimerical undertaking, bas sanclior.ed the enterprise and directed Capt lloss tobe furnished wilh what ever may be deemed useful for its