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Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Frank-lin or settle the questionas to his fate. Mr. HenryGrinnell, a wealthy mer-chant of New York, fittedout an expedition at hisown expense, and placingit under the command ofLieutenant Pe Haven, ofthe United States navy,despatched it to the Arcticregions to search tor ^■■ank-lin and his men, in May,1850. De Haven was ac-companied by Dr» E. K.Kane, in the capacity ofsurgeon and naturalist.After a years absence thevessels returned, the searchhaving been unsuccessful.The general governmentdespatched another expedition in 1851, on thesame errand, and placed it under command ofDr. Kane. This expedition was absent fouryears, and the government, becoming appre-hensive of its fate, sent two vessels to searchfor Kane and his companions. They were fovmd at the isle of Disco, in Greenland,having been forced to abandon their vesselin the ice. Nothing was learned by Dr.Kane concerning the fate of Sir JohnFranklin ; but the expedition resulted in thediscovery of the open Polar sea. Nothing
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SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. definite was learned of the fate of Sir JohnFranklin until 1859, when the steamer Fox, despatched by Lady Franklin, madethe melancholy discovery that Sir JohnFranklin died on the eleventh of June, 1847,and in 1848 the Erebus and Terror 636 FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CIVIL WAR. were abandoned in the ice. The survi-vors of these disasters, one hundred andfive in number, died one by one fromcold and exhaustion on King WilliamsIsland. In the early part of 1851 Congress reducedthe postage on prepaid letters to three centsto all parts of the United States, prepaymentbeing made by means of stamps provided by under great disadvantages. His htalth hadbeen failing for some time past, and hisweakness was so great that he could speakonly with difficulty. This oration was one of the last public actsof the great statesman. On the twenty-fourthof October, 1852, he died at his home atMarshfield, Massachusetts, aged seventy,years, and in him perished the first statesman

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