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The last recorded frame o^n^each microfiche Un des symboles suivants apparaitra sur la TshIaNllUEcoDnt")a,ionrtthheessyymmbbooll V (m(emaenainnigng"E"NCDO"N)-, dcaesr:nilderesyimmbaoglesd-e^chseiqguniefimeic"rAofSiUchieV,REs"e,lonlele whichever applies. symbols V signifie "FIN". Maps, plates, charts, etc., may be filmed at Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent dtre different reduction ratios. Thosetoo large to be filmds A des taux de reduction diffdrents. entirely included in one exposure are filmed Lorsque le document esttrop grand pour dtre beginning in the upper left hand corner, leftto reproduiten un seul clichd, il est film6 d partir right and top to bottom, as many frames as de Tangle sup6rieur gauche, de gauche d droite, required. The following diagrams illustrate the et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre method: d'images ndcessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. 1 SIR JOHN FRANKLIN A EEVELATJON. L i. •> ") ,1 t JOHN FRANKLIN. SIR THE TRUE SECRET THE DISCOVERV 01 HIS FATE. e)l- REVELATION." ii i;y HENRY SKEWES, J. yicar of Holy 1rinily, Liverpool, and late President of The Liverpool Mental Science Association I SECOND EDITION, .i5 With Supplement, containing the confirmatory letters of Lady Franklin, her Ladyship's Niece, the " little Child,' &c. 1 I '1 BEMROSE & SONS, . I 23, Old Bah.ev, LonuOxN and Derby, ; 1890. [Ai/ Rights Reserved.) I 1 ,n \i^o i -J kJ > I " INTEODUCTION. More than eighteen hundred years since, over the banks of Jordan, the heavens "opened." The world, morally and spiritually, was dark. Human philosophy was powerless to remove the darkness. Meet it was that a new era should be inaugurated by phenomena. In the midst of deepening night, the merciful hand of the Infinite Invisible inter- posed, and through the riven clouds came there a voice, saying as it were, " Let there be Light ! The darkness of those days shall serve to illus- trate the darkness which, about forty years ago, rested upon England, Europe and America, and that in connection with the fate of Sir John Franklin. " Where is the expedition which, in 1845, went out to discover the North-West Pas- sage ?" is the question agitating the Old World and the New. Search parties are being sent to every supposed quarter, and one after another is re- turning, bringing no message of comfort to the disconsolate and the heart-broken. The darkness — is becoming unbearable " darker and yet darker still." .>H