Farthest North
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Chapter I Introduction
Introduction
“A time will come in later years when the Ocean will unloose the bands of things, when the immeasurable earth will lie open, when seafarers will discover new countries, and Thule will no longer be the extreme point among the lands.”—Seneca.
Unseen and untrodden under their spotless mantle of ice the rigid polar regions slept the profound sleep of death from the earliest dawn of time. Wrapped in his white shroud, the mighty giant stretched his clammy ice-limbs abroad, and dreamed his age-long dreams.
Ages passed—deep was the silence.
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- The words
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- The source library's header, footer and license, in 4 places
- The printed table of contents (the app makes its own)
- The source website's menus, layout and notices
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages
- Pictures and their captions, in 2 places
- The letter key to the ship's plan drawing (a picture's legend; the drawing is left out, so the key means nothing alone)
- The closing line "End of Vol. I" (a closing line, left out)
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers