_Extracts from Reviews in Recommendation of this Work._
“Mr. LAING performed two Voyages to Greenland, in the successive years
of 1806 and 1807, as Surgeon, under the elder Captain Scoresby; whose
son acted, at that time, as chief mate. His narrative is written
with neatness, simplicity, and taste; and comprises, in a very small
compass, what information could be desired on the subject of which it
treats.”
_Edinburgh Review, No. LIX._
“Mr. Laing’s sensible and unpretending Narrative of a ’Voyage to
Spitzbergen,’ forms an admirable contrast to the pompous and frothy
quarto of Bernard O’Reilly, Esq.”
_Quarterly Review, No. XXXVII._
“In the little Volume before us, we have an interesting addition made
to the natural history of regions of which our knowledge is as yet,
comparatively speaking, but imperfect. Mr. Laing has been evidently
a diligent and acute observer, and communicates the fruits of his
observation in a simple and perspicuous manner.”
_Philosophical Magazine, Vol. LI. No. CCXXXVIII._
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