Figures may convince an armchair Geographer who has a preconceived opinion, but to the true scientist with the many chances for mistakes above indicated there is no real proof.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Everybody thought the question had been settled long ago, but now comes an eminent Geographer and explorer, who says, over his name, that both got to the "Big Nail," and that it was the Brooklyn doctor who did it first.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
The best illustration of this is the almost universal adherence given to the idea that verse poetry came before prose, a view first set forth by the Geographer Strabo in speaking of Homer in the beginning of his Geography.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell