44.  It seems very strange to us after the Northwest passage has been
    discovered by M’Clure in 1852 and the North East passage by
    Nordenskiold in 1879 to read the arguments by which each of the
    upholders of the two routes sought to prove that his opponent’s
    contention was impossible.  Of the two disputants we must confess that
    Jenkinson’s views now appear the likeliest to be realised, for M’Clure
    only made his way from Behring Straits to Melville island by abandoning
    his ship and travelling across the ice, while Nordenskiold carried the
    Vega past the North of Europe and Siberia, returning by Behring’s
    straits and the Pacific.

45.  Cape Chudley.

46.  Born near Doncaster.  He made several attempts to find the Northwest
    passage. (See post.) In 1585 he accompanied Drake to the West Indies;
    assisted in defeating the Spanish Armada, and was mortally wounded in
    1594 at the attack on Fort Croyzan, near Brest.  Some relics of his
    Arctic expedition were discovered by Captain F. C. Hall in 1860-62, and
    described in his delightful book, “Life with the Esquimaux.”

47.  Midway between Orkney and Shetland.

48.  Foula, the most westerly of the Shetlands, round in form, is 12 miles
    in circuit.

49.  Esquimaux.

50.  Far from coming from Newfoundland, this drift-wood is carried into the
    Arctic Ocean by the Yenisei and other large rivers of Siberia.

51.  Contrary to the opinion of Mr. Weise, who insists that Friseland is
    Iceland, I am inclined to believe that the East coast of Greenland is
    meant.

52.  Lieutenant Nansen’s expedition across Greenland negatives this
    supposition, but the West coast is more habitable than the East.

53.  Frobisher Bay:  it is not a strait.  Hall’s Island is Hall’s Peninsula.

54. twisted

55.  Long.  From Saxon sid. (See BEN JONSON, New Inn, v. 1.)

56.  Raisins.

57.  In a very short time.  Sometimes written giffats

58.  It is almost in the exact latitude of Gaboon Bay.

59.  Our author is wrong.  Morocco lies between the annual Isothermal lines
    of 68º Fahr. (or 20 Cent.), whilst the mean temperature at the Equator
    was considered by Humboldt to be 81.4 deg.  Fahr. and by Atkinson (Memoirs
    of the Royal Astronomical Society) 84.5 deg..

60.  Our author means the fifth proposition of the first book of Euclid,
    the celebrated Pons Asinorum.

61.  John Holywood, so named after the place of his birth near York, after
    studying at Oxford, settled in Paris where he became famous.  He died in
    1256, leaving two works of rare power considering the century they were
    written in, viz, de Spheri Mundi, and de Computo Ecclesiastico. 
    They are to be found in one volume 8vo, Paris, 1560.