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It will appear presumptuous to differ from so highly respectable a board as the Admiralty, nevertheless it may be permitted to any individual, however, humble, who has studied the subject in all its intricate details, to argue a point against even such an opponent when the cause of humanity urges anyone who has examined the case in point to offer suggestions having for their object the rescue of so many human lives from certain distruction. [sic]

It is, I believe, taken for granted that Sir J. Franklin is beset by ice, (probably his vessel has become the nucleus of a berg from which years only may enable him to escape the frozen prison--) between Barrow's and Behring Strait. The former the entrance to, the latter the exit from what may be next word underlined: generalized as the Polar Sea -- At what point his arrest may have taken place, it is nearly impossible to conjecture, so that in point of fact, if a search is to the made for the lost Expedition, the extent of such search must only be confined to the whole line of Polar Coast, where at any point, between Barrow and Behring Strait it may be thus beset.

It isknown that two sea expeditions are to proceed in quest of the Arctic Explorers, one to penetrate the Polar Sea by Barrow, the other by Behring Strait. Now it is only natural to anticipate that these vessels may meet with exactly the same difficulties which have stopped Sir J. Franklin