Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1910 — Four Hundred Years Before Peary. [ARTICLE]

Four Hundred Years Before Peary.

The north pole is the place of greatest dignity In the world; and the people who dwell near It “have a wonderful excellency, and an exceeding prerogative above all nations of the earth.” How blessed we may think this nation to be; for they are In perpetual light, and never know what darkness meaneth, by the benefit of twilight and full moons, as the learned In astronomy do very well know, which people, If they have the notice ot their eternity by the comfortable light of the Gospel, then are they blessed and of all nations most blessed. Why then do we neglect the search of this excellent discovery, against which there can be nothing said to hinder the same?—From Hakluyt’s Voyages (Sixteenth Century).