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The discovery of Gapt. DeLong and his ten companions fiozen to death in a heap in the Sibeiian wilderness, brings relief f rom overwrought anxiety, but uo cousolation. This sad euding of what was :t best a foolish enterprise, should put au end to these useless, but fatal expeditions, in search of what, even if found, would not be of the slightest value. ThoughtheJeannette had crossed the pole and descended to southern seas on the other side of the earth, she would not have acliieved the value of üve cents to comruerce or to science. The former comd not have followed in her track, and the latter knows already all that is to be learned of the polar regions - that they are impenetrable mountains of