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Excerpt from Journal of a Voyage to Greenland, in the Year 1821: With Graphic Illustrations
Perseverance had been requisite, I should have found it in the zealous desire to shew gratitude to my country for that generous patronage, which had enabled me to carry into execution my invention for protecting her seamen from the horrors of a watery grave. I shall be pardoned if I here remark, with some degree of pride and satisfaction, that this invention.
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